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...immediate cause of the blowup was the disclosure of a 43-page confidential staff memorandum advising Kennedy to focus television coverage "on native poverty contrasted with the affluence of Government installations" in Alaska. The memo suggested that the word "colonialism" would describe the situation...
Married. David Hemmings, 27, mod, madcap British acting sensation (BlowUp, Charge of the Light Brigade); and Gayle Hunnicut, 25, leggy, Texas-born starlet (P.J.), whom Hemmings "married" in an Italian chapel last year in an impromptu ceremony uncluttered by the presence of a clergyman, which he admitted was "emotional and impetuous and, we later realized, quite invalid"; in a Presbyterian ceremony; he for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Poetic Package. Currently on display at Manhattan's Dwan Gallery are 41 works consisting mostly of words or scale drawings. Among them is one work titled Art as Idea as Idea, which is simply a photographic blowup of the dictionary definition of real. It is the end product of Joseph Kosuth's struggle with the artistic problem of defining what "the real thing is." Says Kosuth gravely: "I think the importance of all art is its ideas." Japanese-born Shusaku Arakawa shows a canvas on which is handwritten a recipe for banana cake. Who, after all, could show...
...grew up being precocious and brash and conceited," says Britain's latest acting sensation, David Hemmings, 25 (BlowUp, Camelot), "and I thought that the only way to live was to live selfishly." Ah, but that was before Hollywood's newest starlet sensation, Gayle Hunnicutt, 23, came along to make a shambles of what David calls "my inner defenses." Not that it was a blitz, mind you. In February, they flew to Las Vegas with marriage on their minds, then had a tiff and David buzzed off to Turkey to film Charge of the Light Brigade. That...
Among the early critics was Michigan's Governor George Romney, who stalked through the pavilion in mid-May. Snapped Romney afterward: "It was pretty on the outside but full of trivia on the inside. When you go through it on the minirail all you see is blowup pictures of Hollywood actors and actresses. I was bitterly disappointed...