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...Avenue. "The balls," notes Oldenburg, "are an at tempt to make tangible my feeling that Park Avenue is a dangerous street where you can get run over and killed very easily. The balls intensify and monumentalize this danger." Another, for Grant Park in Chicago, is a pro digious windshield wiper, slapping back and forth between two long rectangular pools. Says the artist: "These serve as swimming pools for the city's children...
However, from time to time the blade of the Giant Wiper descends into the water. If one doesn't want to get hit, one must watch it and get out in time...
...Wiper makes the sky tangible in that it treats the sky as if it were glass...
...usual odd jobs-truck driver, bottle wiper-were followed by a Ford Foundation grant to continue his research. Under the pen name Joseph Novak, Kosinski published two studies of Communist political theory: The Future Is Ours, Comrade (1960) and No Third Path (1962). In 1962 he married Mary Hayward Weir, the 40-year-old widow of the founder of the National Steel Corp., and Kosinski's life changed again. He began to move in the world of the influential rich, some shadows of which fall on the pages of Being There. His wife died in 1968 after a long...
Grisly Specter. Substantiating that theory, police found a typewritten, misspelled note under the windshield wiper of Dr. Ohta's Rolls-Royce. "Hallowween 1970," it read. "Today World War III will begin as brought to you by the people of the free universe. From this day forward anyone and/or company of persons who misuses the natural environment or destroys same will suffer the penalty of death by the people of the free universe." The note was signed with fortuneteller tarot-card names, one name to a line: "Knight of Wands, Knight of Cups, Knight of Pentacles, Knight of Swords...