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...absolute-most of this either originates in Warhol's paintings or passes through them en route from Duchamp, Jasper Johns and Rauschenberg. But to a wider public, which still measures art in terms of sensuous enjoyability and a man's claim to be an artist by the vim with which he "expresses himself," Warhol is a baffling creature-mainly because his message is that he has no self to express. He names, rather than evaluates. His work is thus one long strategy of self-effacement, a disappearing act behind the gaudy colors and aggressively banal subject matter. Hence...
Louis Lucas, a major grower of table grapes in Chavez's California base in Delano, said of Shultz's plan: "I think he is on the right track" vim But the United Automobile Workers' Walter Reuther found "no moral or economic justification" for separating farm workers-from NLRB coverage. Reuther, a longtime supporter of Chavez, complained: "The Farm Labor Relations Board proposed by the Secretary would operate under law so filled with exclusions and fishhooks as to render it meaningless. We call on the President to reconsider his position." In dozens of cities around the U.S. last...
Shades of Henry VIM...
...great mass of white voters in Gary and Cleveland," observed Psephologist Richard Scammon, "voted white, not Republican or Democratic." And CORE'S Floyd McKissick, in discussing Cleveland and Gary, pointed out: "A black man is still black and the parties do not support black candidates with the same vim, vigor and vitality that they do white candidates...
...right to the place that Cornelius Shields was forced to vacate after a near-fatal heart attack. The 1958 campaign must stand as Bus's finest season, despite what might happen this fall, for only against great adversity is a man truly tested. Bus did something to Vim and her crew that is rare in the annals of yachting. He took a boat that was hopelessly outclassed by 19 years of technological advances in the field of hull design and breathed a life into her that made Vim the boat to beat. He took a crew...