Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...vast sheep steppes of the Australian hinterland. The hero (Robert Mitchum) is a sundowner, the Aussie equivalent of a rolling stone, who drifts from bush town to bush town, job to job, while his wife (Deborah Kerr) urges him to save up, buy a farm and settle down. To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed. But as soon as he has some savings, he nicks off and goes broke in a game of two-up. So it's back to drifting, and though the life is rough as bags, the wife...
Larry Rivers, 37, is a wiry, slightly hipsterish man, who finds it almost impossible to sit still for long. "I get bored easily," says he, but the boredom has paid off handsomely. To keep himself interested, he has never stopped experimenting, and his paintings have managed to arouse the admiration of figurative and abstract partisans alike. They command up to $15,000, and in Manhattan hang in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney and the Metropolitan. Last week 15 of his latest paintings were on view at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, proving that the restless Rivers just keeps...
...from $10 to $50 (on the installment plan). Last week, when her gallery - still dubbed the Downtown, although it has long since moved midtown -launched its 35th annual Christmas Exhibition with a price list from $35 to $1,000, a line of 30 people stood outside the door. "We keep our rich collectors away for this sale, or they'd come in and buy six paintings at a time," she says...
...some 3,000 varieties and sizes of ribbon, it claims to be the biggest in the fast-growing industry. "When you're sophisticated," explains Chicago Printed String President Sol Weiner, "you can wrap a gift in a newspaper. But if you haven't arrived yet, you keep up with the Joneses...
...sale the first laminated plastic wrappers. Sandwiched between the two-ply plastic films are pressed feathers, leaves, glittering sequins and colored confetti. A single sheet, 20 in. by 26 in., costs $1. Chicago Printed String was astonished when not only the Joneses but the people the Joneses keep up with snapped them up. By last week sales were over...