Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insisted its creator, Detroit-born James Lee Byars, "but it doesn't belong in a category. There is something of soft sculpture in it, but there is also something psychic in it. It's a participation." Perhaps a better word for it might be psychosculpture...
Serving the Wealthy. If the celebration was novel, so is the bank that sponsored it. "People have a terrible time trying to understand Brown Brothers Harriman," says Partner Thomas McCance, 66. "We perform an unusual set of services, and 150 years ago they forgot to put the word 'bank' in our name...
...year than ever before. National and local candidates will spend something like $50 million on radio and television advertising, compared with $34.5 million in 1964. Most of that will go for TV time, and even the networks are becoming defensive about the cost. Lately, they have been passing the word that candidates can get discounts of up to 50% on standard rates, which can run as high as $70,000 for a minute of prime time. There is only one catch: the networks are demanding full payment in cash 24 hours before air time...
...executed traditional story about a Siamese twin who believes that his brother is planning to kill him. By turns funny and pathetic, it shudders with the paranoia that ensues when one loses his sense of humor about an unalterable condition. Title is an experimental fiction that is the last word in self-consciousness as a literary mode. The protagonist is the story itself, continually stumbling over its own beginning, middle and end, and recovering to see if anybody is still watching. "To acknowledge what I'm doing while I'm doing it is exactly the point," it proclaims...
...rather heard-in Glossolalia. He uses the mystical notion of speaking in tongues as a pointed metaphor in his guerrilla war against static literary forms. More a soothsayer's scripture than prose fiction, the piece mimics the ancient ritual that attempts to divine the truth with spontaneous word patterns and nonsense syllables. Concludes Barth: "The sense-lessest babble, could we ken it, might disclose a dark message, or prayer...