Word: thon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purely interpretive. I have nothing to equate it with. I don't know whether it is like him or unlike him." Still, the young artist must be doing something right: he has been commissioned by NASA authorities to join Robert Rauschenberg, John Meigs and William Thon at Cape Kennedy to sketch his impressions of this week's scheduled Apollo 11 blastoff to the moon...
...zest and pounding rhythm of Luca Giordano's 1702 Crucifixion is all the more remarkable because the artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
Ronald Reagan was a long way from Hollywood and Vine last weekend, helping with Republican fund-raising affairs across the South. But just three blocks south of the famous old intersection, in a rambling warehouse, dedicated volunteers were running an eight-day "Recall-a-thon" aimed at removing Reagan from his starring role in Sacramento...
Though the Governor is not due for re-election until 1970, California is one of 13 states that allow state officers to face recall, a turn-of-the-century device designed to evict officeholders before their terms are up. The Recall-a-thon climaxes a six-month attempt to exercise that privilege...
...Recall-a-thon has failed to produce any last-minute surge of activity. A county-fair booth in ultra-conservative Orange County has garnered some signatures-but, says Koupal, has also caused one volunteer there to be beaten up. Whatever the ultimate outcome, the signature validating will scarcely have begun when the Republicans meet in Miami Beach, and the campaign could thus damage Reagan's hope for the nomination. In any case, Reagan is not likely to lose all that much luster at home. A Mervin Field Poll last week showed that if a recall election were actually held...