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...Dallas? Oedipus Tex?) This and the other new dramas offer the easy thrills of a paperback bought at a bus terminal; even the season's best sitcoms, Just Our Luck and Mr. Smith, are no more demanding than a vintage comic book in Dad's attic. Still, trash has its charms. Herewith a look at ten fall shows, good, bad and same-different...
...household name, but the MacArthur award has made me a more common name. I'm getting greater exposure." A newfound sense of financial security has also been an aid to creativity. Says he: "There's this myth that the artist has to starve in the attic, but that's romantic nonsense. I can write just as good music on a full stomach as on an empty stomach-and maybe it's even better...
Murphy's palette holds softer shades too. One character, known as Solomon, is every happy-sad old man you ever edged away from on the bus; he spars gingerly with an old pal, croaks a song or two and returns without warning to the attic of reverie. Look behind the electrified hair and the cunningly garbled consonants of Murphy's Buckwheat, a resurrection of the character from the Our Gang comedies, and you will find a showbiz paradigm: the exploitation of a smile and a conspicuous lack of talent into big bucks. Whites are not immune either...
...expected in works of art that sit in storage for several years, the Center's specialists sometimes find more unusual objects. Recently, researchers found a corn plant growing out of the back of a painting by Thomas Jones, an 18th century English artist. "They found that painting in an attic that had been used for feeding hens," says Mary McGrath, an intern in the painting lab. "The seeds had settled in on it and sprouted," she adds...
Some dramatic revivals are like toys in an attic. One remembers them fondly. They look oddly shrunken and faded. At a touch, a faint puff of dust rises...