Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fountains. But Writer John McPhee spent ten days there and only part of the nights and he ate-as the editorial business manager will discover-without dipping a finger in a fountain. In fact, he ate his way through such delights as soft-shelled crab on a bun, walnut fried Boston sole, partridge with grapes of Almeria, banana dogs, smoked eel of the river Tagus, Kambing Masak Bugis and A jam Panggang-and one ham on rye to go. Followed, on occasion, by antacid tablets...
HUGH TOWNLEY-Pace, 9 West 57th. A Brown University art professor nails together all kinds of wood (walnut, oak, mahogany, cherry, maple, rosewood) and, with whalebone and horn, exploits the different shapes, grains and tones to endow his abstract anomalies with a curious vitality. Says he: "I want a thing that provokes and tantalizes and satisfies ... a bitchy piece of sculpture that lives." On view: 15 such pieces in relief and in the round. Through...
Died. William Muir, 61, North Dakota-born sculptor (TIME, March 13) whose works, inspired by seaweed and seed pod and carved in kingwood, walnut, mahogany and cocobolo, had combined the artless beauty of driftwood with the dynamic tension characteristic of Arp and Moore; following heart surgery; in Pittsburgh...
Muir, 61, is a carver who penetrates a forest of woods: hard black walnut, violet kingwood, satiny lignum vitae, reddish cocobolo, Pernambuco wood, mahogany, apple, redwood and familiar trees. Occasionally he also works with granite. Yet it is dried seed pods, withered blossoms, moss and lichens that give Muir his forms. "I am a scavenger and gatherer of all sorts of flora not thought much of by most people," he says...
...stir much surprise. This is a pity because in recent years, as his novels get worse and worse, his stories have been getting better and better. In an astonishing output-four volumes since 1960-of brief encounters and broader recollections, his writing has moved way beyond the burled walnut finish and the chromium-plated dialogue that have made him famous...