Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have used many art forms for " TIME covers-painting, drawing, cartoon, collage, woodcut, sculpture -but never before the special blend that makes up this week's cover on Playboy Editor Hugh Hefner. It is the work of Marisol, whose highly original and wryly appealing style joins wood sculpture, drawing and painting (not to mention carpentry) in a unique combination. The components of her portraits may be odd -a box, a block, a barrel-but they perceptively convey likeness as well as character. "Her art is that of a toy-maker," wrote TIME'S art critic in 1963, "designed...
...Rimers of Eldritch, by Lanford Wilson, is a little bit like seeing and hearing vignettes from Winesburg, Ohio set to the cadences and dramatic form of Under Milk Wood. Eldritch is a once coal-rich Midwestern ghost town, whose remaining citizens have become tiny little slag heaps of humanity. The frustrated urge to flee has become the venomous urge to flail one another. They use one of the weapons of the weak-their tongues-and the air they breathe is incessant and malicious gossip. It takes a crime for anyone to become visible in Eldritch, and the play revolves around...
...suiter was lined with Styrofoam that would cushion any bumps or jolts. But before the Bird could be nested, there were the problems of humidity and temperature to solve; in the Prince's vaults, where Ginevra had been kept, the temperature is 44°, humidity 55%. If the wood-panel oil heated or dried too quickly, the paint surface might crack. To protect against this, the suitcase was turned into what Feidler calls "a traveling thermos bottle"; the painting was wrapped in sheets of polyethylene and sealed airtight to keep it fresh, much like a sandwich in Saran wrap...
Last June 16 she showed up at a graduation ceremony in the predominantly Negro Patrick Campbell School. A near riot broke out at the graduation when a Negro minister, the Rev. Virgil Wood, jumped up on the platform and shouted "Hitler" while waving his fist at Mrs. Hicks. The very next day, as Mrs. Hicks well knew, was Bunker Hill Day, a public holiday in the working class neighborhood of Charlestown. Mrs. Hicks received the loudest applause given to any politician in the Bunker Hill Dav Parade...
...immediate problem which, is no less serious than it was when it baffled Wood, is finances. The break with the CIA is not as financially serious now as it would have been in years when the Agency provided 80 per cent of the budget, but even $50,000 is proving difficult to replace. In addition, NSA would like to expand its programs...