Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Filmed entire in the slums of New York City and Newark, the project took some nine months and posed hazards for Producer-Director Helen Whitney, whose voice can be frequently heard questioning the show's young subjects. Her purse was stolen during one interview, and she was slammed against the hood of a car during a street altercation. The menace is often palpable. When Whitney asks a group of young men where they draw the line at violence, one replies heatedly: "Ain't no limit. If I gotta kill you to get what I want...
...Whitney, a craftsman in the American grain...
...muscular arm-all are there. He signs his work with an anchor; and Westermann's age, 55, is about right too. What the comparison lacks, of course, is the talent. Westermann's retrospective of 59 sculptures and 24 drawings, which runs until mid-July at the Whitney Museum in New York and then goes on a tour of museums in New Orleans, Des Moines, Seattle and San Francisco through the spring of 1979, attests to that. For a small but steadfast audience, Westermann's imagination has for years been one of the most original and disturbing...
...line now operates a largely Boeing-made 27-plane fleet, and it is buying primarily to standardize equipment and get new fuel-efficient Pratt & Whitney engines. "The devil you know is better than the one you don't," says SIA Chairman Joseph Pillay, who is 44 but looks much younger...
...doubt the U.S.'s Eximbank will make loans to SIA, and that may cause a touch of embarrassment for both Boeing and United Technologies, the parent of Pratt & Whitney. Only last month executives of both companies blasted Eastern Air Lines' $778 million purchase of 19 European-made A300 Airbuses, charging that the deals had been "unfairly subsidized" by the German, French and Spanish governments. Boeing never had strong grounds for complaint anyway-it accounts for more than half of all commercial plane sales in the non-Communist world. To keep up with traffic growth and meet noise...