Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGE ORTMAN-Wise, 50 West 57th. In "illuminations" and painting constructions, Ortman juggles signs and symbols into colorful allegories. Also drawings, prints, sculpture. Through...
Baby is better at cracking wise than being wise. When Woodward announces that she has preserved her beauty as a sacred obligation to her public, Newman reveals that she has had a dozen face-lifts and is so full of wax that she doesn't dare get close to a fireplace. Newman's funniest conceit, in every sense, is an idea to package frozen "Celebrity Seed" so that every woman in America can have a baby by her favorite actor, singer, TV panelist, "or in certain isolated instances, dress designer." That's what Baby needs -a playwright...
...Harvard Cooperative Society will consider "some aspects" of an alternative design for its four-story Palmer St. annex, Stanley F. Teele, president of the Coop, said yesterday. He declined, however, to specify which features of the design were involved, claiming that "it would not be wise or proper...
Breaking Down Gauguin. With jigsaw-puzzle patience, he paints, stretches, and inserts separate canvases within larger paintings, such as his Dyce Head, which goes on view next week in Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery. Slight variations in the insert's edges lend solidity and weight to the overall emblematic energy of his image. Ortman intends the circles, squares and triangles as external symbols; the results are bright shields of canvas, heraldry for a modern machine...
...personalities, warped or beaten or hardened by their addiction: Leach (Warren Finnerty), terrified, somewhat effeminate, tormented by a boil on his neck; Ernie (Garry Goodrow), young, hypersensitive, a frustrated musician who toots pathetically on a mouthpiece because his saxophone is in hock; Solly (Jerome Raphael), crudite, witty, said and wise; and Sam (James Anderson), simple, naive, and humane...