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Dare I admit that now my most vivid recollection of my first year's apprenticeship is a phase from a lecture on waste disposal? The teacher of this training course was a lively master plumber, whose name, unfortunately, has long since left me. For this particular lecture he had written a short whimsical account of the progress of waste from Claverly Hall down to the Charles River. At one point he described the meeting of this waste with run-off from the bakery rooms of the University kitchens and said it would be impossible for the two to be confluent...
...portrait of Ethel, put her in an automatic snapshot studio in Times Square and fed heaps of quarters into it. "Now start smiling and talking," said the artist, while the mechanical camera took scores of candids, "this is costing me money." Then Warhol silk-screened 35 of the most vivid views onto squares of canvas, colored variously to give them the psychologically potent hues, producing a serial portrait of a woman in love with life...
McCarthy and Welch were only the leaders of the battle: some of the most vivid scenes center around their allies, cohorts, and lieutenants. Ever present beside McCarthy, sitting close at his elbow and whispering constantly in his ear, is one of the strangest participants, Roy M. Cohn. In one scene Counsel Welch is cross-examining one of McCarthy's assistants about where a "doctored" photograph which McCarthy introduced as evidence came from. Welch inquires sarcastically if a "pixie" brought it in, and Cohn leans over to whisper something in McCarthy...
...most important, what is gained by saying one painting is "the best"? Asger Jorn, Denmark's painter of livid, vivid abstraction, caused a bit of a tempest this year by refusing to accept a proffered Guggenheim award. "I get my money by selling paintings," he said, "and I think it is more healthy than by getting prizes. If you establish that one artist is better than another one, it is a question of convention-and you have to have a common measure, whereas the whole value of art is exactly that common measure doesn't exist...
...Psychiatrist Bromberg interviewed members of Ruby's family as well as Ruby, constructed a vivid picture of a fellow baffled since childhood...