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Billy Mike Smithson knows he is a longshot. "Realistically, I have no chance to make the team," he says, "but I hope I get a chance to show what...
...called environmental art have met misunderstanding and hostility from the press and the public since the movement got underway in the 1960s. The category of environmental art includes such diverse and controversial projects as Christo's "Running Fence," which stretched along miles of the California coastline, and Robert Smithson's full-sized "Spiral Jetty" in the Great Salt Lake in Utah...
...Rosemary Smithson, Chair of the Missouri ERA Coalition, outlined the elective strategy. "We must get women to focus, not on national candidates, but on replacing those legislators who have previously noted no. Where there is an apparent pattern of defeats in State Senate races we must concentrate our energies on electing women who will be active supporters of the measure Our slogan is. "Women are supposed to clean house. We must also clean the Senate...
...very existence hinges on the privileged status of art itself, a status drilled into the world audience by decades of institutional art-worship. No matter how nugatory an event or object seems, it is nevertheless special, being art. And within this protective box, the conceptual artist-as Sculptor Robert Smithson acerbically put it-disports himself "like a B.F. Skinner rat doing his 'tough' little tricks...
...hero, Charles Smithson, a young model of Victorian gentility redeemed by intelligence and irony, is an amateur naturalist and a postulant for the new faith of evolution. But he is still pledged to old pieties through his engagement to the shallow daughter of a rich London merchant. Fowles' strategy is to bring the contradictions of Charles' situation-and, by implication, of the Victorian age-to a crisis...