Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Magic and Line. The most mysterious and commanding work in the show is by a young New York sculptor. Nancy Graves. 30. Her Shaman is a group of ten objects made of latex, muslin and wire, hanging from the ceiling. They derive (she says) from the ceremonial costumes worn by priests of the Kwakiutl Indian tribe in North America, and they have an eerie "presence," as if the magicians, like shadows, had vacated the elaborate cloaks and headdresses, which were also their skins of power, and left the shucked-off relics behind them, battered but still imbued with magical force...
DelRay Maughn and Dewey Hickman were nipped at the wire in the 60 yard high hurdles, but still contributed four points to the Harvard total. Likewise, Baylee Reid and Chris Alvord were second and third for the Crimson in the 60 yard dash...
...MEETING WITH KING: I got a wire from the Reverend Doctor King in New York. He was getting ready to get the Nobel Prize-he was the last one in the world who should ever have received it. He wired asking to see me.* I held him in complete contempt because of the things he said and because of his conduct. First I felt I shouldn't see him, but then I thought he might become a martyr if I didn't. King was very suave and smooth. He sat right there where you're sitting...
...BERNSTEIN party achieved fame for being the last, as well as the most publicized, Panther party. (Thanks largely to the New York Times, which sent the Curtis story out over its wire and then published its own damning editorial. Wolfe repeats the Bernsteins' conspiracy theory explanation, but defaults as a journalist in not investigating the Times' Bernstein pogrom himself.) When word of the party got around, everything suddenly went askew, other stories were cancelled, and the only radical cause left in vogue became the preservation of ocelots and cheetas. In short, the chic had hit the fan. A potential source...
Farneti, who was All-Ivy first team as a junior, was the only Crimson player chosen by the wire service poll of New England sports writers...