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...Carter has done everything-for a fee-from judging belly-flop diving contests to promoting a beer named after him. Last year Billy finally ended up in the renowned alcoholic rehabilitation service of the Long Beach Naval Regional Medical Center for a seven-week drying out. Things were less antic for a while, but last week, adding to Jimmy Carter's woes this election year, Billy reluctantly registered as the agent of a foreign government in order to avoid possible criminal prosecution by his brother's Justice Department...
...orderly meditation wandering over six years of Albert's life. Tragedy (his step son's death by drowning) blows by with a sort of offhanded inevitability. The Dynamo moves from New Canaan to Fair Haven. But the action is entirely within the well-furnished brain of antic and sorrowing Albert. One day he tells his psychiatrist: "You know, Tolstoy said that playing the accordion diverts men from realizing the falsity of their goals." Replies Dr. Nederlander: "You want me to turn on the Yankee game...
This is a tale of two houses and four sisters. The time is the early 1920s, and the place is Midwestern America. The houses, with their gables and gingerbread curlicues, are hopscotch close. In their backyards unfolds a human comedy that is warm, antic, wise and utterly endearing...
...folks should relax. The Ramones may never sell records like Kiss, but their inspired, self-parodying lunacy and sideways sophistication have given an antic and raucous heartbeat to the often sober-sided American new wave. "I like people to take us seriously," insisted Lead Singer Joey to TIME'S John Buckman. "It's no joke, no novelty act. We're not clowns." The nice thing about the Ramones is that one can take them seriously and have a good laugh at the same time. Tunes like Sheena Is a Punk Rocker and Rockaway Beach are feckless, speedy...
...from rough tree branches, trunks and slate. His projects include a sculpture of growing trees, topiarized into the form of a dome, a sylvan abstraction that will take 30 years to reach its intended dimensions. What seems so fetching in his work is not just its titles, which are antic (who could not be charmed by a pair of boughs, their twiggish arms laid over each other, called Cuddling Branches?), but its unpretentious dialogue with natural shape, which Nash treats not as raw material but as an equal partner in conspiracy. Chorus Line (Three Dandy Scuttlers), 1976, strikes a fine...