Word: freak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MENTION the name of Diane Arbus on a street corner in Manhattan, you are likely to hear murmuring-- "Oh, the freak photographer" or, "Her photos are strange," followed by an uncertain "What do you think of her stuff...
BOSWORTH SEES HER break with the fashion world as the turning point in Arbus' career, the moment she went form being a photographer to being an artist. Forbidden as a young girl from even looking at freaks, she now stared. She began to prowl the streets of New York-late at night, when the train stations were "deep, empty, odoriferous-'like pits of hell''' and when the freaks-came out. Soon she became a regular at Hubert's Freak Museum. Staring at the hideous figures, she felt fear run its course through her body and she was determined to conquer...
Bosworth strives to portray Aubus as the misunderstood artist. At the first public exhibition of he works, the Museum of Modern Art show in March 1967, critics dismissed her as a freak artist. It wasn't until a year after Arbus death that the art world embraced her work. Her pieces were exhibited at the Venice Biennale, a portfolio of her work was published in Art Forum and her name "was rapidly acquiring a semi-mythic status...
South House, now called Cabor House, on Saturday night hosted an auction that raised some $1900 for a memorial fund Honoring a former House member who died in a freak accident last...
...computers by 1½ million units this year. The revolution has touched all those involved in preparing the cover package. "A new video store seems to open every month in a New York neighborhood," says Ainslie. "Some of them even deliver." New York Correspondent Barry Kalb, an avowed movie freak, bought his VCR to catch up on all the films he missed during nine years as a foreign correspondent. "In Hong Kong, where we lived from 1975 through 1978," he says, "no movie that didn't feature large amounts of action and violence played in local theaters for long...