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Shadow Play. In many cases, the options in Milwaukee are simply yes or no decisions. Gallerygoers, for instance, have a choice of contemplating Andy Warhol's peeled version of a silk-screened banana, or admiring the unpeeled one. Or they can stoke Robert Watts's Stamp Machine with either nickels or dimes. (Having been removed from daily use to the higher realms of art in 1963, Watts has replaced its now outdated U.S. Government stamps with stamps of his own design.) They can strum the weird musical instruments of Francois and Bernard Baschet, but the atonal sounds evoked...
...John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast with its white silk background. The program for the 16-day conference included everything from Bible study to some readings from Bertolt Brecht's play St. Joan of the Stockyards...
Holmes is now designing a mini cardinal's dress, complete with silk sash and flat-brimmed pontifical...
Boasting qualities that are superior to the most luxurious silk fabrics, Qiana gives all the appearance of silk-from the luster of its surface yarn to its light weight, drape and color. Added to this, exotic sounding Qiana-a computerized combination of random letters-is a practical drip-dry wonder that can be machine-washed and still resist wrinkles...
...versatile new fabric, which sells for about $5 to $8 per pound (versus $9.30 for silk), will be found initially only in women's fine apparel, but eventually will be used in all types of clothing. For Du Pont, whose sales and profits, after a long lag, have shown an upturn this year, costly Qiana is not expected to mean an overnight boom. It will, however, take the company into a new area-and help offset sagging textile profits caused by overproduction...