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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taft does not belittle such blessings. Nor can he match Democrat Gilligan's forceful, witty platform style. So day after day for the last eight months, Taft has plodded through bowling alleys and shopping centers, meeting the voters and doggedly trying to erase the touch of aloofness in his image that he inherited from his father along with a pleasant, bespectacled phiz. "No Taft for four generations," one of his aides observed, "has campaigned like this." Oddly, there is a shortage of clearly defined issues between the adversaries. Though they have exchanged many words over Viet Nam, both support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ohio: The Great-Grandson Race | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...rather shrill editorial introduction and the back cover ("The Boston Review is on the MOVE... Hasta la vista, sista) suggests that magazines should either say a great deal about themselves or very little; BR hasn't yet chosen between tendenz and taciturnity. When the magazine recovers from a slight touch of editorialisis, and develops a group of contributors that is distinctly its own, it will, in fact, be on the move. Hasta la vista, Charley. And Ferg, in particular...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: The Boston Review | 10/20/1966 | See Source »

...idea is to keep the paintings free from any personal touch which might be more meaningful to the artist than to a random viewer...

Author: By Jonathan D. Fineberg, | Title: Warhol Paintings Revitalize the Aesthetic of the Everyday World | 10/18/1966 | See Source »

...distinctly unexpressive and unindividual. As he associates his paintings to the familiar surroundings of his viewer--spatially and with the objects he represents--he also attempts to remove any sign of individual or personal involvement in production. The idea is to keep the paintings free from any personal touch which might be more meaningful to the artist than to random viewer. Some of his early pieces--like the dollar bills--are made with a rubber stamp, but more re- cently he has begun to reproduce his paintings with silk screen. For Warhol, the silk screen process provides an ideal method...

Author: By Jonathan D. Fineberg, | Title: Warhol Paintings Revitalize the Aesthetic of the Everyday World | 10/18/1966 | See Source »

...designer that up to the first reel of the film, which starts in Copenhagen and ends in East Berlin, we'd have a certain amount of color up to that, and from then on the colors would be grey and beige for the mood of the iron curtains. A touch of red here and there, inspired by the color of the uniforms they wore. So that was the scheme...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: ALFRED HITCHCOCK AT HARVARD | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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