Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, for instance, only two months ago finally got around to revising its 30-year-old code. An office building can be written off for tax purposes in 45 years ?so why build it to last any longer? Admits one construction-company official: "There's no such thing as a luxury rental building?only middle-income buildings at luxury prices." Most low-rent housing developments, says Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League, rapidly turn into "vertical slums." As for planning, while many cities like Philadelphia and Boston have become showplaces, most of them cling...
...ankle, knee-or eye-level. Yet none of these ever actually move, for they are not boats, not planes, but sleekly minimal bolts and beams cantilevered into a startling semblance of motion by Manhattan's Robert Grosvenor, 31. "I like sculpture to be a kind of quick thing, like what we see out of train windows," says Grosvenor. "I like things I've seen very fast and I don't know what they are, but I remember the outline, the image. I'd like my sculptures to be remembered the same...
...choice of a client. Invited by Hugh Hefner to do a lobby for a Playboy Club in Wisconsin, Grosvenor proposed a piece so large that people would have to walk over or around it. Hefner never actually told him in so many words that it would not do. "Next thing I knew," Grosvenor recalls, "they were buying $9,000 trees to put where my piece was supposed to go." Grosvenor is currently at work on a huge rainbow-like arc, commissioned by a Newport collector, that will curve out and downward from a 30-ft. cliff near the ocean. Even...
...worst thing about being in the limelight," says Pitcher Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals, "is trying to go somewhere and enjoy yourself for a little while without being bothered. Your steak gets cold and your drink gets flat, and you can't even go to the rest room without someone asking for an autograph." Moreover, he adds, "Ninetynine out of a hundred people I meet want to talk about only one thing, baseball, and that doesn't make for very interesting conversation. Just suppose, for example, that you were a garbage collector and every day about...
...Hoboken, N.J. Still, most Americans have some difficulty understanding a game in which 1) the batter wears gloves while all but one of the fielders are barehanded, 2) runs are scored in dozens or even hundreds, 3) it takes 20 outs to end one "innings," and 4) the whole thing can last as long as six days-counting tea breaks. What baseball fan could be expected to comprehend a game in which the batter hits the ball on the bounce, runs only if he chooses to, and is considered unrefined if he swings for the fences...