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...professional company tries to present a variety of shows, which are, in the words of a theater spokesperson, "not too avant-garde." One of its recent presentations, a hilarious revival of the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers, went on to have runs in other cities with the same principal actors...
Famous for introducing randomness in his musical compositions, the avant-garde composer John Cage took his talents to the next logical step when he delivered the first of his six Norton lectures in almost entirely randomly arranged phrases...
...what appears on the L.A.T.C.'s stages -- from classics and European avant-garde imports to new works by Los Angeles playwrights and projects from black, Asian and Hispanic theater labs -- is so compelling that within three years of opening, it has grown to a thriving four-theater complex with 26,000 subscribers that earns half its budget from ticket sales. Playgoers readily brave the neighborhood to see the L.A.T.C.'s feisty, political and customarily left-of-center offerings...
...pictures in the show, made soon after he finished studying art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1970, are images simply torn from magazines and reworked. Others are Polaroids of himself or Rock Singer Patti Smith, for years his muse, companion and fellow traveler through the New York City avant-garde...
...starting to see biking clothing on MTV and rock stars," says Huffy's David Goubeaux. Waist- slung bike bags are standard city-street chic, while the shorts have become so popular that some manufacturers are making them without the padding, for everyday wear. "Bicycle shorts are now avant-garde fashion," says Bruce Burgess, owner of Bicycle Holidays in Vermont. "Who cares if you've ever seen a bike?" Still to come: Gucci panniers, kidskin biking gloves, designer training wheels...