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Seek My Face lets Updike imagine his way into the enigmas of that great moment in the 1950s when American art conquered the world. By way of Hope's memories, he lights upon Pollock's contemporaries--Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman--the anointed gladiators of the American avant-garde. The names are changed, but their vanities and treacheries and barroom intellectual brawls are pretty much as we know them. As for Hope, she resembles Pollock's actual wife, the steadfast Lee Krasner, though not in every detail, especially after McCoy's death, when she marries...
...held that animals, human and otherwise, were essentially machines that responded to rewards and punishments. Babies clung to their mothers not for affection but because mothers provided food rewards. Using baby monkeys and artificial "mother" dolls in a series of experiments at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in the 1950s and '60s, Harlow proved the babies would cling to the dolls even when food was offered elsewhere. Love, which other psychologists had dismissed as irrelevant and scientifically meaningless, was in fact the linchpin of mental health...
DIED. LONNIE DONEGAN, 71, Scottish rock and blues musician who in the 1950s introduced Britain to "skiffle"--a precursor to rock 'n' roll that combines folk, jug band, country, jazz and blues--inspiring musicians like John Lennon, Van Morrison and Pete Townshend; after a long battle with heart ailments; in Peterborough, England. Among his hits were Rock Island Line and Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (on the Bedpost Overnight...
These were the ladies who lunched in Douglas Sirk's 1950s "women's pictures" (magnificent obsession, all that heaven allows, imitation of life). Universal Studios decreed the improbable luxe of their suburban decor and the oversaturated colors of the films' palette. reviewers of the time dismissed these films (though audiences lapped them up), but over the years academics, feminist theorists and the ga-ga cinephile community have insisted on a re-evaluation. They see in Sirk's films' sympathy for his painfully repressed heroines a slyly subversive assault on the bland values that strangled them...
Karl Pope has been searching for the perfect surfboard since he took to the waves in the mid-1950s. In 1964 he introduced the Travelboard, a three-piece model, with partner Tom Morey (who went on to invent the boogie board in 1971). Four years ago, Pope introduced the Bisect, a two-piece board that is even easier to transport; just pull it out of the trunk, snap it together, and head for the water. His latest innovation: the Bisect Hollow Carbon Stealth (as in Stealth fighter). It's pressure-molded out of a carbon-fiber composite...