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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This particular exhibition is also exciting because it includes work that departs from the artists more familiar styles. For instance, Gorky is noted for composing basic shapes in drawings and then improvising on them in his paintings--in one the lines might dissolve into a wash of color; in another they would be accented by being presented against a different--colored background. This technique is apparent in Calendars, a charcoal drawing in the exhibition where ambiguous forms interweave and recede into the background. Although Gorky's manipulation of abstract shapes is imaginative, his portraits display a more impressive versatility. Portrait...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Taming Action Painting | 3/4/1975 | See Source »

That agenda now includes rather minor policy matters, such as the maximum number of hours a worker should work per week, or how often to wash the aprons. But it has included items such as wages, prices and store-hours changes and whether to invest in a new air-conditioner...

Author: By Jenny Netzer, | Title: The Scoop on Steve's Ice Cream | 2/26/1975 | See Source »

...Spokane, Wash., callers with clogged drains are met with a message from Reginald the plumber: "If you have a plumbing problem, please write down the nature of your problem and mail it to me. If this is an emergency, write 'Rush' on the letter. All letters will be judged on the basis of neatness and originality." Manhattan Psychiatrist Edward Hornick's electronic surrogate greets the caller with "Shrink, Inc." Some of the more innovative answering-machine users are massage parlors and "rap" studios. In its recorded message the Blue Orchid Studio of Kansas City, Mo., gets right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Creative Answering | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...matter if "smoking," "abortion," and "overeating" all turned up in this show again--the skits were always creative). As the actors came backstage from their final bows to give out mutual hugs of congratulations and relax briefly before the next show, a total rapport and group assurance seemed to wash over all the anxious tensions and worries of the past two hours, and even those of the show to come. After seven years, the aftermath of a success is a good, familiar feeling...

Author: By James Ulmer, | Title: Like King Tut, Only Alive | 2/13/1975 | See Source »

...investigators soon got a break. The pair who fled the murder house in Leonia were seen near by minutes later washing blood from the man's shirt in a puddle of water and then discarding the shirt when the blood failed to wash away. Local police retrieved the bloodstained shirt the same day, and it was a veritable marquee of clues. Inside the collar were a manufacturer's trademark, a store label and a launderer's stamp. The manufacturer was able to pinpoint a store in Philadelphia where the garment had been sold. The dry cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Bizarre Case of Father and Son | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

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