Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elitism, its removal from reality and its total dependence on literary explanation in order to be understood. But "The Painted Word" reads more like an attack on critics and New York-based culture than on the art itself. Wolfe spends more time talking about the place of the artist in high society and on the increasingly outlandish theories used to justify artistic movements, than on actual paintings. It's an overall indictment of a scene that Wolfe says will end up on the dustbin of art history, to be viewed only as a curiosity...
...great revival of social realism and had therefore replaced the novel as the dominant literary art form of the modern age. All that was stated; what was implied, of course, was that Wolfe, as founder and chief theoretician of the new journalism, was a great and seminal artist...
...pronounces his Spanish name An-hell and likes to think of himself as a flying angel) has been riding professionally for 15 of his 32 years. The 5-ft. 3-in., 113-lb. jock, a bubbling personality who often sings while riding to the post, is a quiet artist at the reins. Along with a "good-looking seat"-he rides in a tight crouch with his back parallel to the horse's body-Cordero has one of the most effective whip techniques in the business. By switching his whip from hand to hand in heavy traffic without missing...
What makes this production especially disappointing is that Kinky Friedman is an artist of uncommon talents, with a creative mind and an emotional range lacking any precedent in country music. His position as country's only Jewish performer, balanced by his thorough familiarity with the roots of country music, makes him potentially invaluable as an imaginative and broadening influence on the industry. But his potential is far from fulfilled in this album, as he doubtless knows. Maybe that's why the jacket shows him burying his face in his hands. At least he has a sense of shame...
...extra ticket for the Grammys," quipped Singer-Composer John Lennon after showing up for the annual record-awards show with his estranged wife, Artist Yoko Ono. Lennon revealed that he and Yoko put their marital act back together after an 18-month breakup and have been "happily ensconced" in Manhattan for the past month. "Our separation was a failure," said John. "We knew we would get back together; it was just a matter of time. Thank God it happened...