Word: yorks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oldenburg moved to New York, where he met Artists Jim Dine and Allan Kaprow, who were busy inventing the world's first "happenings." Soon Oldenburg was staging happenings too, and got married to a pretty artists' model, Pat Muschinski. The world of objects-food, toys, bric-a-brac-blazed all around him ia neighborhood stores. Claes started to reproduce them in burlap or muslin dipped in plaster and painted with all the romantic energy of Abstract Expressionism. "I wanted to extend color to three-dimensioned form," he says, "to make paint tangible and edible...
Claes carries a notebook everywhere, and his drawings have an immediate impact. Free, energetic, powerful, they reflect the man's intellect, brobdingnagian humor and conviction in his vision. In 1964 when Oldenburg was flying back from a trip to Europe, he looked at New York and "suddenly it seemed as if the city had gotten smaller or I had gotten bigger." The whole idea of scale started him thinking about monuments, and so he drew them. Not monuments in the usual sense of statues or obelisks, they were things that attain monumentality through constant use: a toilet float that...
Matching Capability. Though McHarg is only one of several such pioneers, he is now the nation's most visible apostle of using ecology for planning-and turning a profit in the broadest sense. As an example, his book describes how his firm planned a scenic highway on New York City's increasingly squandered Staten Island. To find the best route, he mapped every physical and social feature in the area, in-eluding slopes, soil foundations, forests, scenic and residential values...
Traditionally, a President makes himself accessible to a few reporters whose influence, usefulness, or even friendship gains them favored status. Jack Kennedy nightcapped his Inaugural at the home of Columnist Joseph Alsop; Lyndon Johnson in the early days regularly called in James Reston of the New York Times for private chats and personally leaked stories to Drew Pearson. Richard Nixon has changed all that. He follows a methodical formula for the impartial treatment of members of the Washington press corps: he is equally remote from all of them. He grants no private interviews, and, until two weeks ago, had held...
...since Joe Namath graduated from Alabama to the New York Jets has there been a rookie as rhapsodized as Buffalo's O. J. Simpson. His status allowed him to hold out for six months before signing a four-year contract for more than $200,000-the highest figure received by any rookie since the A.F.L. and N.F.L. merged in 1966. Before he had played a minute of pro football, O.J.'s fame had won him a multiplicity of handsome off-the-field contracts, including a television debut in CBS-TV's Medical Center...