Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interested in your "Handwriting on the Wall" article [Nov. 15]. I did some workshops at the University of Cincinnati last summer and with a special camera took over 100 pictures of university graffiti on toilet-room walls...
...Giant fan, you have a turbulent heritage of soaring ecstasy and abject humiliation-but never indifference. You are one whose loyalty is unquestioned, whose joy is resounding, whose abusiveness is devastating. You are black or white, rich or poor, Jew or Gentile. You are a janitor or a Wall Street broker, an artist or a truck driver, a college dean or a housewife, a motion picture star or a social worker. You represent every facet of American life with a completeness no other gathering in the entire country can duplicate...
Ridgeway is particularly critical of Barzun's Columbia, because it not only is one of New York's largest real estate owners but also maintains a private Wall Street office to oversee investment of its endowment money. He takes a painstakingly detailed look at Columbia's involvement with the unsuccessful Strickman cigarette filter. As things have turned out, the filter has yet to make any money for Columbia. But the university's initial endorsement pushed cigarette stock prices so high that the University of Texas was able to sell 59,000 shares of R. J. Reynolds...
...quiet, Tennessee-born part-time art teacher, has lived in Manhattan lofts and tenements and painted "naked" pictures. That is to say, he covers rectangles of metal, canvas or paper with white paint and then, instead of framing them or stretching them, he mounts them as close to the wall as he can get them, sometimes stapling them directly to the plaster. The effect is unnerving. The wall seems to have developed a gaping hole...
...game with the St. Louis Cardinals. With the unsmiling dignity of bullfighters, the players in the dressing room tape up their scarred knees and ribs, drop their false teeth and rings into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping and retching on the bench. When Alda final ly takes the field to re-enact Plimpton's quarterbacking blunders, he becomes an unwelcome...