Word: weiner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lighthearted Havoc. Many of the pientrepreneurs were inspired, and some actually franchised, by Manhattan-based Pie-Kill Unlimited, which has twelve operatives, has been in business for a year, and claims a face count of 178. Pie-Kill's manifesto, composed by Founder Rex Weiner, a pastry-faced 24-year-old, reads as if it had been collectively written by P.O. Wodehouse, James Bond and the Three Stooges. "Our high duty," it announces, "is to 1) stamp out pomposity; 2) uphold the virtues of surprise, randomness and chaos; 3) wreak lighthearted havoc whenever and wherever possible...
...Kill client can take his choice of lemon cream, chocolate cream, banana cream and lemon meringue (the hardest to remove) pies, all of which emanate from a Manhattan bakery that, says Weiner, produces edible missiles of "just the right consistency-heavy and thick. Aerodynamically they are perfect...
...Kill does not stop at artificial boundary lines. It has just made its first international hit. As Canadian Newscaster Keith Morrison was reading the headlines one morning last month in Montreal on a Today-style TV program carried live across Canada, Weiner splatted a whipped-cream pie across his face. Morrison was stunned, but quickly recovered and wiped the debris from his face; the creaming was rebroadcast on another nationally televised program a few days later...
...program: exhibitions, archive, study center, seminars, master classes, lectures. It is a culmination of years of effort by Capa to get museum exposure for such doyens of the document as Lewis Hine and Andre Kertesz, together with Capa's contemporaries and friends, some prematurely dead: David Seymour Dan Weiner, Werner Bischof, and Capa's brother Robert, who died in Indochina in 1954. Their work forms one of the center's inaugural shows, Classics of Documentary Photography"; another floor is given to the equally classic results of Henri Cartier-Bresson's two visits to Russia...
Lombard is replacing Harry Weiner who will direct the Program for Urban and Policy Sciences at SUNY, Stony Brook...