Word: souped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that forbids "wives, horses or mustaches" to cadets. Olds sought a face-saving clemency from the Commander-in-Chief, appealing that general Air Force rules permit mustaches that are "closely and neatly trimmed." But L.B.J. refused to be drawn into the thicket of regulations, and so Olds's soup strainer will come...
...artists who came after behaved like delighted, bright-eyed children let loose in a supermarket. They too liked their objects big. Andy Warhol enlarged a Campbell soup can and made it an object of veneration; Tom Wesselman celebrated bathrooms and kitchens; Robert Rauschenberg painted his own bed, made a sacred relic out of a stuffed goat with a tire round his middle and walked off with first honors at the 1964 Venice Biennale. Onetime Sign Painter James Rosenquist composed his images of the modern U.S.A. -from hair dryers to atomic bombs-on a canvas titled F-lll, which measures...
...Soup-Can Glasses. That the scene is lively, Tony Smith certainly agrees. While no pop art collector himself, he still thinks its cheerful acceptance has added yeast to the ferment. "It has helped art move from a private scene to a public scene," he points out. "In an odd way, the people who supported pop contributed to this by living public lives through mass media. We got to see their collections in magazines; they were talked about in the press, on TV. Their lives became public, and it made the general public much more aware of art and artists...
Apart from Saturday night's performance, which drove me out of the Colonial Theatre after the first act, there are three outstandingly appalling things about There's a Girl in My Soup...
...Soup is to look at the dark side of the British theatrical moon which is teeming with mal-produced musicals and jerry-built comedies. This play brings home the theatrically if not geographically accurate fact that much of the West End is Rotten...