Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feudalism in old Japan was so strict that lords could even dictate what color and what kind of clothing their serfs could wear. Craftsmen were restricted to certain specialized skills, such as carving, lacquering, throwing clay, screening silk. And during lifetimes of limited expression, they became surpassing experts at their narrow specialty. For example, etna, often painted reliefs of white horses, were Shinto offerings that recall live horses dedicated to the god spirit Kami, who rode a sacred horse while blessing his worshipers. Ema horses were bought for a song and were left in temples; but they were executed with...
Junk on Wheels. Robert Rauschenberg, 39, has already established himself as a pop hero by exhibiting a stuffed goat, his own bed, and lumps of genuine Fulton Street dirt as art, and picked up the 1964 Venice Biennale's International First Prize for painting with his silk-screen images taken from newsphotos. Last week at Castelli's, Rauschenberg unveiled his latest kick-electronic sculpture. Titled Oracle, it is a series of five disconnected wagons of carefully put together junk, which Rauschenberg thinks of as "a collage out of sound." The connecting links are auditory; four pieces tweet...
...remarkable vote getter. Since 1959, he has represented Manhattan's so-called "silk stocking" district; it includes Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue and Sutton Place, but it also embraces the seamier realms of Green wich Village and the East Side. In his first election he won by only 7,800 votes. He has vastly increased that margin every time since, and in 1964 he had an 81,000-vote plurality...
...garage. "They say the president's garage had more coats of paint on it than any house in San Marcos," says retired Government Professor Howard Mell Greene, the teacher Lyndon once introduced to President Kennedy as "the man that started the fires under me." Lyndon also peddled Real Silk socks and, recalls fellow student Bill Deason, "Dr. Evans wound up with more socks than...
Princess Radziwill arrived in a long, lime-green silk crepe by Yves St. Laurent, edged with gold. Mrs. Kennedy's guest list had plenty of show business: Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Movie Producer Sam Spiegel and Broadway's Mike Nichols, Sybil Burton and Arlene Francis, plus Economist J. Kenneth Galbraith and Politicians Robert F. Kennedy, Pierre Salinger and Franklin D. Roosevelt...