Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late sixties, perhaps influenced by Liv Ullman, his lady at the time. Bergman warmed a bit and granted a few interviews. Even then it seemed he felt an interview was a chore, a quite unpleasant side effect of fame to be conducted with the smug assurance of the true artist...
...Drag On--Chris Smither (Poppy). An artist like Chris Smither is less likely to scale Himalayan peaks than a joni Mitchell, but this album flies consistently at a remarkably high level. A folk singer whose music is closer to rock and blues than to the classics, Smither has a powerful voice with a controlled roughness. Don't It Drag On is a supremely economical album; each track is strong, the moods are well balanced from sedate to raucous, and Smither never stifles the impact of his or other people's songs with flabby arrangements or excessive lyrics...
OVERFOND OF THE PAST, he brings confused eyes to the present, and he stretches the contrast between to ludicrous dimensions. On the Orient Express Henry smokes dope with a wealthy blue-jeaned backpacking American girl. Her father is in the CIA, her boyfriend a pop artist, and she can talk of nothing but the fact that her period is late and whom among her countless bedmates could the culprit be? Then Henry sleeps with her. The girl is a modern version of Aunt Augusta stripped of the illusions. She faces facts with the same irresponsible gaiety in which Aunt Augusta...
Died. Stanley Glaubach, 48, prolific graphic designer and artist whose wry sculptures in plastic, papier-máché and other materials appeared on the covers of Esquire, New York and, on six occasions last year, TIME (most recently: TIME's nutrition cover, Dec. 18); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Prouvost had earlier decided to shave an inch from the magazine's vertical size to create a less bulky format. Then he ruled that a complete typographical overhaul should accompany that change. Among those he called on for advice was Commercial Artist Milton Glaser, 43, design director of New York magazine. Glaser went to Paris in late November and quickly whipped off some 30 sample designs for the "new" Paris Match cover. Impressed, Prouvost then asked Glaser to redesign the entire magazine. The only hitch was that he refused to wait the two or three months that Glaser guessed...