Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Music School at the age of 26, he had done most of his singing in church choirs and shower -stalls. Instead of a Wagnerian selection, he sang an aria from Verdi's Otello, impressing the judges with his brooding intensity and naturally rich, dark-timbred voice. A good thing, too, because Otello "is the only role I really know...
...newest crop of painters who prey upon their fellows promises to prove more unsettling than any of its predecessors. For one thing, the school is proliferating rapidly. One Manhattan showroom is currently showing Richard Pettibone's miniature copies of Andy Warhol's soup cans, while another opened last week with Howard Kanovitz's paintings of his easel, his art-world friends and the backs of his canvases. A third gallery is showing Malcolm Morley's version of Vermeer's Portrait of the Artist in His Studio-a much-admired painting that has also served...
...fair, fey and fortyish Manhattan divorcee who went to Paris last year with her two small daughters and may not find it safe to come back. For she practices a kind of art that has made her one of the less popular artists in Manhattan. Sturtevant's thing is line-for-line copies of virtually every top pop painter and sculptor. She has "done" Segal, Wesselmann, Oldenburg, Stella, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist and Warhol with such loving cunning and accomplished accuracy that she makes them all look slightly ridiculous. If the ideal of pop is to reproduce banality literally, then...
...known. Among others, his decision saddens Fat Thomas, the 350-lb. New York bookie, who has gone so legit since Breslin began writing him up that he now works as an actor. "Jimmy says to hell with the big people," says Fat Thomas. "His whole thing is helpin' little people." Now Jimmy has decided to help himself. He has stopped writing his column for the New York Post*and five other papers partly because the $125,000 he conned out of publishers and ABC-TV last year is no longer enough...
Breslin never pontificated about anything, but his attitude was rarely in doubt. His reporting from Viet Nam ignored military strategy, focused instead on the human tragedies on both sides, because Breslin has to write about people, not issues. He came away hating it all. "This thing," he says now, "it's like getting killed in an industrial accident...