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...play off the television culture that gave them birth. Indeed, some avantgardists have made the television screen their preferred medium, like Korean-born Video Artist Nam June Paik, who amasses hundreds of video monitors in assemblages. When Byrne, driving along the Texas highways in his red 1985 Chrysler Le Baron convertible in True Stories, turns to the camera and exclaims, "Radio reception is great here!" his excitement is real. Anyone born after 1950 understands the synergy between rock 'n' roll, a radio and the open road...
...underwear to cover his ass." The Comic-Strip Effect: "Whack-whack-whack-whack -- And suddenly it was in his hands, a great living thing that pumped and pulsed against his palms, pushing them back and forth. (nonononononono)." The Burlesque Locution: " 'Good ahfternyoon, deah lady,' Richie said in his best Baron Butthole Voice. 'I am in diah need of three tickey-tickies to youah deah old American flicktoons.' " The Fancy Juxtaposition: epigraphs from Virgil and Mean Streets. The Self-Deflating Jape: "I am . . . the only survivor of a dying planet. I have come to rob all the women . . . rape...
...that Robert Ballard has proved that artifacts from the Titanic can be salvaged ("It would have been easy to retrieve those things," he said last week), the great ship may become a target for treasure hunters. Texas Oil Baron Jack Grimm, who between 1980 and 1983 spent a total of $2 million on three failed missions to find the Titanic, announced last week that he plans to use a submersible next summer to retrieve Titanic relics. "The selling of them I'm not particularly interested in," he says. "I'll probably donate them to different museums or put them...
Lord Carrington--the sixth baron to hold the 190-year-old British title--began his political career with his election to the Buckinghamshire County Council shortly after returning from World War II, during which he won a Military Cross for heroism. Since that time, the current Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has served as high Commissioner of Australia, First Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy, Chairman of the Conservative Party, and Foreign Secretary. He resigned the last position days after Argentina's 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands as a matter...
...seven-year drought of the '50s. But for all the usual Texas exuberance, one hears sometimes an elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah Johnson...