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...pitching style. Henry Aaron calls you a "mean" pitcher, and Willie Mays says your fastball, which has been clocked at 95.3 miles per hour, is especially hard to hit because you come in with it sidearm, like the Cincinnati Reds' great Ewell Blackwell used to do. With your whiplash delivery and your arms and legs flailing, you look like a man fighting his way out of a plastic bag. What's more, some of the players around the National League claim you're a "headhunter" because you've led the league in hit batsmen five times...
...their wait, De Kooning's admirers were generously rewarded. De Kooning's latest work (see color opposite) is a highly sophisticated summation of all the major developments of his previous styles. Still present are the whiplash strokes and splatter that were his trademark in the mid-1940s when the cantankerous immigrant Dutchman, onetime housepainter and WPA artist, was helping to establish abstract expressionism. In the early 1950s, he had devoted himself to a bloodthirsty series of darkly lurid women totems (among them, Marilyn Monroe). No sooner had his women gained acceptance than he switched again, to abstract landscapes...
Better Lemmon. For such reckless abandon Crawford pays a price. In Black Comedy to date, he has suffered a whiplash neck, a gashed and infected back, four ankle sprains, eight torn ligaments, and splinters in all ten fingers. The other night, while fastening the neck brace he has to wear between performances, he was asked why he didn't put out a little less or stay home and play his favorite sport of Monopoly. Crawford, aghast at such an unprofessional thought, replied: "I wouldn't give up those laughs for anything. My injuries are pleasure bumps...
...eleven years since he was killed in a car crack-up at the age of 44, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, fabled for his whiplash paintings, truculent insistence on wearing cowboy boots, and his drunken rages, has ceased to be regarded as a guru among his fellow artists. A more sophisticated public is no longer shocked by the fact that he dribbled and threw paint at his monumental canvases instead of applying it with a brush. For those accustomed to the bright glow of neon, even his colors seem calm. In short, Pollock has become something that many artists dread more...
...three of the original 23 proposals were dropped. Two of them, involving tire-endurance, braking and weight-supporting standards, were suspended pending further research. The third-headrests to reduce whiplash neck injuries-was put off mainly because the industry cannot as yet produce enough to equip all cars. One major concession, provided for foreign manufacturers who do not follow the U.S. model-changeover routine, was to delay the effective date of the standards four months...