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...criticism of the structure, right?" Stripped of its jargon, this is a not very surprising revelation that parrots are not perches. But at least one could scratch the parrot, which is not the case with more conceptualized works like Mel Bochner's recent piece at the Sonnabend Gallery: The Seven Properties of Between, 1971-72. It consisted of leaves of paper on which were laid stones, labeled A, B, X and Y, with such observations written below as "If X is between A and B, A and B are not identical." What, one wonders, are such minimalities doing...
...previously unrecognized groups. His awareness has extended not only to large groups or classes like the working class, but also to the smaller groups within these larger stratifications. Of course the measure of his tactics and socio-political awareness depends on the evidence he provides in November. Roger Sonnabend of the Committee for Art for McGovern '72 explained how one can measure the success of such an auction: "The most important measure is in November (the reason for this sale and auction). But also everybody should have a good time and a very exciting evening...
Died. Abraham Malcolm Sonnabend, 67, Boston financier, one of the nation's best-known corporate marriage brokers, who merged his hotel chain (Manhattan's Plaza, Washington's Mayflower) into money-losing Child's Restaurants in 1956 to form Hotel Corp. of America, a move that enabled him to write off hotel profits against restaurant tax credits, used the same method to take Botany textiles into everything from suntan lotion to Mad magazine, sent profits soaring for both companies until the credits ran out, whereupon disenchanted stockholders last year cut his Hotel Corp. salary...
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Price Wars. Sonnabend is worried about the developing price war among hotelmen who have started offering special family rates, tourist class rooms, and discounts on rooms to big corporate users and conventions. Says Sonnabend: "We seem to have forgotten the expensive lesson of the Great Depression, when we discovered that the total market for hotel rooms is rather inflexible and that cutting prices really did not help...