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But records mean record companies; Mistah Kurtz, he alive over at Warner Brothers. Record companies knew that the New Wave could be reduced to formulas and cranked out of the mill, that like everything else this exciting new music was susceptible to the process that had become a metaphor for...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Ban the Bombers | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

K.S.W., as she was known, did of course fill her house with flowers year round, but she had little patience with the artsy floral constructions ("Zen and all zat") cherished by garden clubs. She never belonged to such an organization. "Sometimes," her husband recalls, "as I sat quietly in my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Thoughts | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

The Advocate: America's oldest college publication. In a cozy building behind Kirkland House, artsy intellectuals gather around a big table to determine what poetry, prose and graphics will fill the quarterly. The quality of the contributions is erratic--some are outstanding. But the Advocate's reputation as the best...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Sign Up, Please | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Barthelme clearly feels that there is nothing left to be done; his wistful reminiscences in "The New Music" or his older story. "At the Tolstoy Museum," bears this out. Barthelme yearns for a simpler day, when authors wrote epics instead of this artsy noodling. As he writes in "The Crisis...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Not-So-Great Days | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

Allen's cinematography also imitates Bergman. Interiors is beautiful, almost too beautiful, as if constructed by someone just as neurotic as Page's interior decorator. The interiors are spare, still and natural, an appropriate setting for this family. But Allen forces the issue, almost to the point of being a...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Woody Allen's Other Side | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

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