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...high" culture. Paik, who was to move to New York in 1964, would play a piano and then topple it over onstage; he would cut a pianist's shirttails to shreds with scissors, or stage a little musical "event" by dragging a violin along the sidewalk on a string, like a scraped and protesting pet. A cellist, Charlotte Moorman, would appear for Paik at a concert and play her instrument with tiny TV sets rigged over her breasts; or, to the scandal and amusement of the New York art world in 1967, she would perform topless...
...more marquee value, but, much in the manner of movie stars, he has squandered his earnings. Uncle Scrooge McDuck, of Scots ancestry and American pioneer tradition, has never let go of a dime-not even the first one he ever earned, which he often carries, tied to a string and stashed in an inside pocket of his moleskin-collared coat...
...With his unabashed melodies and basically conservative harmonies, the Soviet composer was a misfit in an age that prized innovation above all, and he was often unfavorably compared with his more radical contemporaries Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Who would have predicted, then, that a cycle of Shostakovich's 15 string quartets by Britain's Fitzwilliam Quartet would turn out to be the instrumental highlight of the New York season...
Shoelaces are among the least sung-about parts of any wardrobe. Most people hardly notice them. But now style has claimed even these pedestrian pieces of string. Fancy laces imprinted with rainbows, hearts, stars and whole menageries are turning sneakers and jogging shoes into snazzy footwear...
...years; apparently of a heart attack; in Newark, Ohio. A former chairman of the American Conservative Union, he sometimes let his fierce rhetoric overshadow his personal charm. In 1972 he challenged President Nixon in four Republican primaries but never got more than 10% of the vote. After a string of victories in his district, Ashbrook was seeking his party's nomination for the Senate seat held by Democrat Howard Metzenbaum...