Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent the grocery money and half the rent on liquor and then jammed the air waves confessing. "Dang me, they ought to take a rope and hang me," he keeps singing. Nobody is arguing with him, but so far the only action against him has been taken by Ruby Wright, who sings an answer to Dang Me called Dern Ya. In the meanwhile Miller has gone on writing songs like those that fill this album, e.g., Squares Make the World Go Round...
Nearly 10,000 buildings, ranging from four to seven stories in height, have mushroomed near the city's center. And many more have come down, for "transitory" is Tokyo's middle name. Even Frank Lloyd Wright's earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, built in 1922, is threatened with replacement by a highrise, moneymaking skyscraper. But most of the buildings razed have been scabrous shanties along the narrow, unnamed streets trod by geta-ed feet which comprise most of Tokyo's byways. The new roads-$470 million worth of them-will ease the burden of Tokyo...
...Boston Traveler's Jim Dobbins, who sketches a scrawny Barry, says, "I like to show him as a weakling." Such strident convictions can dim a man's appreciation for his own art. "I'm not happy with my Goldwater," says the Miami News's Don Wright, "but then I'm not happy with Goldwater, period...
...California's Mickey Wright, 29: the United States women's open golf title for a fourth time, at the San Diego Country Club. Forced into a playoff round with Ruth Jessen, Mighty Mickey boomed the ball around the 6,400-yd. course for a man-sized, three-under-par 70 and her seventh victory in twelve tournaments this year. Said her opponent: "I hate to lose, but there is some consolation in losing to the greatest woman golfer in the world...
Among the paintings in the present display, not more than one-ninth could be considered good, and not one is truly outstanding. It can be said for the judges that they gave their top prizes to some of the most interesting artists in the show--James Charles Wright, William Christopher, Gyorgy Kepes, Anthony Childs, and Leo Waldmann--but it is nonetheless difficult to believe that the 180 pieces they selected to hang in the Garden are the best of more than two thousand entries. Surely somewhere in that pile of rejected canvasses there are a few items which are better...