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...WHITNEY in the spring is a grim faced place. A meagre garden decks its front, and the inside is all stark white surfaces--clean line meeting line. Quite the proper house for art, this ascetic place to go to look but not to touch. The spareness is calculated for hushed awe. Culture lovers tread softly through these rooms of the great and the dead. No spring romps through these solemn halls. For this is the showcase of the Tasteful...
...might explode. Now, you trade in art vocabularies like the diet faddist adjusting eating habits. It's enough to make anybody jumpy with anxiety. And anxiety is no good breeder of art lovers. But anxiety is what we've got. For all the difference it would have made the Whitney might have been empty...
...fable of the emperor's clothes it was a child ignorant of the rules who hollered that he was naked. (Certainly the children had the biggest ball of all at the Whitney.) But you and I lack even rules. And it is a futile effort that searches for them. Ambiguity is all you will get out of this art scene. The artist is marketing wiseguyness (Warhol makes a six-hour movie of a man sleeping and distributes it as fast as his factories can manufacture it; Lichtenstein can't get off his punch line. "It seemed impossible to print something...
...left Litton in 1971, when it appeared that he would have to wait too long for Chairman Tex Thornton and then President Roy Ash to step down. Gray moved to the presidency of Connecticut's United Aircraft Corp., world's largest maker of jet engines (Pratt & Whitney). Today he is launching a major diversification for the $2 billion-a-year company. Last week United made a deal to swap $750 million of its stock for the Signal Companies, headquartered in Beverly Hills. Signal had $1.5 billion in sales last year from drilling oil and gas, manufacturing Garrett...
...Whitney North Seymour Jr., who resigned this month as a U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, wants the FBI broken up along functional lines into two separate agencies: a criminal-investigation bureau and a spy-chasing national security unit. Seymour believes that a conflict of interest between those two duties made the FBI ripe for political exploitation by the White House...