Word: spins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT COOK-Sculpture Center, 167 East 69th. An American who works in Rome, Cook sculpts in beeswax, then casts in bronze. His sinewy sculptures spin in bright, convoluted rhythms. Thirty works. Through April...
...mammoth piano keyboard painted on their sides. The umbrellas pick out a waltz, note for precise note, in two-part harmony. This brings the man and woman together. The cubes roll over again and become an automobile with painted wheels. The couple goes for a drive. The wheels spin. The girl's hair blows in the wind. Paper puffs of exhaust smoke head for the wings. The girl loses her scarf. The car backs up to retrieve it. The smoke reverses direction and goes back into the exhaust pipe. Love can do anything. Curtain...
...Henry himself has been driving one on the freeway between Dearborn and Grosse Pointe, where the chances of being spotted by a photographer are slight.) When Buhlie cast his eye on the fire-engine-red Mustang in the family garage, he could not resist taking a spin, then somewhat carelessly parked the car in a lot near the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, one of downtown Detroit's busiest spots. As Buhlie left the parking lot, he told the attendant...
Filtered through the mad wit of Billy Brown, these grotesque gyrations sometimes threaten to spin out of control into pure centrifugal farce. But at his best Novelist Miller has come close to creating a comic epic celebrating the lunatic fringes of a genuine American phenomenon-a young nation's yearning for final answers and impossible perfections, its fears that a great dream has somehow been laid waste in the pillaging of a rich continent for material wellbeing...
...life as can be ascertained from Stratford town records and a handful of references to him by folk in Elizabethan London can easily be (and, in fact, are) completely set down in a few columns of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But for decades scholars have felt compelled to spin these few threads into an overblown fabric of speculation which the academic world charitably describes as literary biography. The latest offender is a brilliant and bumptious Cornishman named A. L. Rowse...