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Wood as Grass. Certain younger sculptors at the Whitney eschew the high finish such works imply: their materials are plain, crudely put together and ostentatiously frugal. John Duff's Tie Piece, with its floppy swag of old neckties sewn together and swaying on a curved wooden slat, is a very promising exploration of the possibilities that lie dormant in ignored objects. It is rare to see such a fastidious imagination expressing itself through such deliberately mingy means...
Below the Parthian battleground where Marc Anthony met defeat, Japanese mini-tractors now wade into paddies thick with rice. Along the Caspian seashore, the highways are clogged with slat-sided Mercedes trucks hauling a record cotton crop to market. The beaches bounce with bikinis, and teen-agers in Teheran have joined the Transistor Generation. The ancient, withered men of Yezd are being taught to read. In Qum and Bam, in Dizful and Gowater and 50,000 villages throughout Iran, 15 million peasants have been transformed, almost overnight in history's terms, from feudal serfs into freeholders whose land...
...elderly woman in Columbus, Neb., turned on her color TV set, tuned in the Tonight show, and settled back to watch Johnny Carson. "And now-here's Johnny!" called Announcer Ed McMahon as the star skipped onstage-fetchingly handsome, slat-thin, loose-limbed, and wrapped in a Continental-cut suit. "My name is Shirley Hoffnagel," he began with eyes laughing, "and I'm here to talk tonight about the wonderful progress that medical science has made in sex-change operations...
...beautiful. Her hair was a reddish-blonde mop, fuzzy and unruly, her nose overlong, her face hollow-cheeked and colorless, and she always emphasized her pallor by slathering on white powder. In an era when the feminine ideal was a dimpled and cushiony Venus, she was skinny as a slat. "An empty carriage pulled up at the stage door and Sarah Bernhardt got out," said one wit. A columnist declared that "she never needed an umbrella-she was thin enough to walk between the drops." Dumas the younger, who knew Sarah well because she appeared for years in his Lady...
Thomas S. Eisenstadt. Joseph Lee Jr., and William E. O'Connor, three incumbents who have agreed with Mrs. Hicks on most racial issues, ran behind her in the early balloting but ahead of the five-man Citizens for Boston Schools slat-supported by civil rights leaders...