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Totem from Taboo. Johns's most known work is his 1960 Painted Bronze, apparently just two Ballantine ale cans on a pedestal. But look again, since, through the looking glass of pop, nothing is quite what it seems. They are, in fact, cast-bronze facsimiles of ale cans, one slightly smaller than the other. One is punched open and empty; the other is closed and solid bronze. Their labels are handpainted, and when lifted off their base, they provide a hefty gravitational surprise. They delight Johns pre cisely because they are false twins, an unequal equation, in short...
Johns's followers even go so far as to see in them the transubstantiation of the familiar, a totem made from artistic taboo...
Master Bargainers. The U.S. charges that such contracts enable Russia "to devote other resources to military and unpeaceful purposes," discourages American firms from making deals with the Soviets. Other nations do not seem to listen. Working under contract - not by investment, which is still taboo in Communist lands - a number of British companies have agreed to build fertilizer, petrochemical and textile plants...
...returned to his home town for his first visit in ten years. Attendance of both races at the reception was entirely spontaneous and unorganized-so informal, in fact, that for a while it was the chief of police who poured punch at the punch bowl! It is apparently taboo these days to report anything good about Mississippi, but it did strike a happy note to see our Mississippi mayor presenting to a Negro artist the key to our city...
...plus entering freshmen, the aims are exposing them to new ideas, allowing them to discuss hitherto taboo topics, stimulating critical thought on their part, and encouraging them to pursue the interests they have already developed...