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Nevertheless, one of art's iron laws is that sooner or later, what goes around comes around. And this show provides a moving record of Europe's reaffirmation of itself against terrible odds. The totalitarian regimes of the '30s-Nazism in Germany and Central Europe, Fascism in Italy, Stalinism in the Soviet Union-had wiped entire countries off the map of modernist culture. Though modernism had long flirted with the idea of historical amnesia, treating the past as though it were a drag on invention, it was not equipped to deal with the actual destruction of that past...
DIED. JEROME ZIPKIN, 80, social moth; in Manhattan. Loyal, insulting -- often to the same people -- Jerry Zipkin served for half a century as party guest, escort and confidant of socially prominent, financially comfortable women (Betsy Bloomingdale, Pat Buckley). In the '30s his friend Somerset Maugham modeled the snobbish Elliot Templeton of The Razor's Edge on the fashion-obsessed real estate heir. But Zipkin's greatest coup was his relationship with Nancy Reagan. He was with the First Family on the night they captured that title; in the following years, Mrs. Reagan dished and danced with Zipkin so regularly that...
...possibilities in rock, films and TV. The result was a pop culture more pointed and grown up, but also more shameless and adolescent; sometimes both at the same time. The great skirmishes against the blue-nosed guardians of culture-the Hays Office that policed movies in the '30s or the network censors who tormented the Smothers Brothers in the late '60s-became the stuff of baby-boomer folklore...
...mass of folks going to the movies and buying records are in their teens, 20s and early 30s. The optimism of Forrest Gump rang false for a lot of us. The Lion King offered moments of uplift that faded when the lights came up. But hip-hop songs such as KRS-One's Build & Destroy, Gang Starr's Just to Get a Rep and Tupac Shakur's Holler If Ya Hear Me sound fierce and true, reflecting in mood and content the real world around me and many hundreds of thousands of fans...
Going to business school still seemed like adefiant political statement that many didn't wantto make. Those who did had in some ways the lastlaugh as we moved into our 30s and the Dow movedinto the thousands...