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Died. A. J. Liebling, 59, freewheeling journalist and longtime New Yorker contributor, who turned his sometimes loving, often acid pen to food (no one could pack away more), prizefights (he once fancied himself a not-quite Hemingway-class boxer), World War II accounts of the North African campaign, countless articles on the Wayward Press, and one notable dissection of Chicago: The Second City, whose cry, Liebling insisted, had changed from "Lemme at him" to "Hold him offa me"; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
ROBERT BÜCKER-Feigen-Herbert, 24 East 81st. Hard-edged icons by a 28-year-old New Yorker: polyptychs of oil on wood are marked with only an occasional economical line to suggest Romanesque pillars and arches. Bücker is delicate, antique, and trim enough a craftsman to be a builder of clavichords, also on view. Through...
BRUNO LUCCHESI-Forum, 1018 Madison Ave. at 79th. The new bronzes of this Italian-born New Yorker, a 1962 Guggenheim fellow, sparkle with candid spontaneity: washerwomen gossip over wet rags, a child quivers on stilts, a peasant Girl Tying Apron seems to be doing the twist. What continually threatens Lucchesi's suspended animations is a manneristic overdose of whimsy. Through...
...Conjugal Bed--An acting out in human terms of the fierceness of the queen bee's desire for motherhood and the fate of the drone who dares to satisfy her. Unlikely as it seems, an extremely comic picture. The New Yorker, December...
MILTON HEBALD-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. Sometimes tender, sometimes turgid figurative sculpture by a classically inspired New Yorker who lives in Rome. At best, Hebald's pot-bellied centaurs, lovers lounging in urnlike bathtubs, and fountain topped by the refugees on Noah's Ark (including a brontosaur that presumably fell overboard) are full of frivolous immediacy. Through...