Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race. Though the Sinatras-Frank and Nancy-have for reasons of their own renounced the Kennedys for Humphrey, the Vice President's supporting cast is far shorter and markedly less sexy. H.H.H.'s leading B.P.: Tallulah Bankhead, Roberta Peters, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Dempsey, Joseph Wood Krutch, Isaac Stern, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison and James T. Farrell. Couturiere Mollie Parnis is on the list -though of course Muriel makes almost all of her own clothes...
...Educator, Equipoise, Dark Star, Dark Secret, and-that tourist!-Epinard, Faireno, Kelso, Gallahadion, Jim Dandy, Gallant Fox, Top Flight, Whichone, And one we need not call by name, the get Of Fair Play from Mahubah; and Regret, Noor, Sergeant Byrne, Ponder, and Petrotude, Miss Merriment, My Lovely, Singing Wood (Bay colt, by Royal Minstrel out of Glade), Cochise, Count Fleet, King Saxon, Cavalcade, Three fillies, Sorrow and Song and Rust-remember?-And Scarlet Oak, Right Royal, and Red Ember, Nashua, Swaps, and Sting, and Twenty Grand, Wise Counsellor, Whirlaway, and Yellow Hand, Yurup, another gray one, Native Dancer-Where...
...recall that Dr. McKeeby was rather sensitive about the painting; so was the whole state of Iowa, although both Dr. McKeeby and Iowa eventually got over that. Even so, in the early 1940s, a good deal of persuasion was required to get Nan Wood Graham and Dr. McKeeby to pose for a photograph with American Gothic in the background, the occasion being the first hanging of the painting at the Cedar Rapids Art Association (Grant had done virtually all of his good early work in or near Cedar Rapids). The persuasion of Dr. McKeeby, who died some years ago, entailed...
...some people really think that Nan Wood Graham posed for the bikini and topless versions of American Gothic, she should be happy to pay Johnny Carson and Playboy magazine $9,000,000 in appreciation...
Italy's Alberto Burri, who began by charring panels of wood, now creates haunting images by scorching skeins of plastic; after all, since nature is in a state of constant metamorphosis, fire, which transmutes plastic's clarity into murk, is a legitimate artist's tool. Philip McCracken offers a long, narrow Plexiglas case, with five light bulbs lined up inside, four of them shot to bits and bullet holes piercing the case on either side of them. The piece seems to ask the question "When?" as the eye canvasses the damage already done and the mind awaits...