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...valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Bartell likens the suburban wasteland to the sterile Arctic habitat of the wife-swapping Eskimo. The sterile environment, he concludes, leads some people to try group sex simply to relieve boredom. Others hope it will make them feel young, avant-garde and sexually desirable. Moreover, swinging "is in keeping with American cultural patterns: to be popular, to have friends, to be busy...
Bitches Brew; 2 LPs (Columbia). With this heady, often shattering sonic fusion of rock's electronics and the classic avant-garde's aleatory atonalism, Trumpeter Miles Davis shakes jazz to its roots...
Some day, somebody like Ralph Ginzburg will publish the best promotions of Ralph Ginzburg. It will include blurbs for Eros, the hard-cover quarterly "devoted to the joys of love"; Fact, the magazine that would "not hesitate to ask 'Where are the emperor's clothes?' "; and Avant-Garde, the journal pledged to generate "an orgasm of the mind."* And it will certainly include Ginzburg's pitches for his newest publishing venture, a consumer newsletter called Moneysworth...
...Only Avant-Garde survives. Eros ended in 1963, after four issues. Its brief life contributed to Ginzburg's being convicted of pandering through the mails (an appeal is still pending). Fact folded in 1967, three years after Barry Goldwater initiated a libel suit that eventually cost Ginzburg nearly...
...When I entered the convent, I never expected to be fashionable again. However, I now find I'm in the avant-garde of the Longuette look [Sept. 14] in my religious habit...