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...shell of the shard. Two decades ago, some government arts agency would have paid Richard Serra a bundle to devise and execute this idea. Even now, it has a weird... not beauty, but aleatory artfulness. In the current issue of a newsweekly (but not in THE newsweekly), the architect Bart Voorsanger says the steel beams are ?torqued in amazing ways.? Does Al Qaeda deserve a commission? No, but there?s something to be grateful for in the new American mood of seriousness, wariness, solemnity, mourning. It means that, as a country, we?ve been shocked into adulthood...
...offshoot of political turmoil (in the case of punk, economic and social turmoil in late-1970’s Britain; in the case of indie, rebellion against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel,” and through deliberate and contrived publicity, the UK-banned Never Mind the Bollocks became a No. 1 album, and Nirvana moved...
...PETER BART Variety editor sorry for wildly offensive remarks, gets job back. Will there be a sequel...
...Benedictine brothers' book of prayers is a best-seller. New business plans: hair shirt swimsuit and B. Bros' Hip Hop Hymns Losers TONY RODHAM Hillary Clinton's brother is caught having sex with another man's girlfriend and beaten up. That right-wing conspiracy just won't die PETER BART The editor of Variety is suspended for boffo business deals on the side. Americans are shocked to find ethical lapses in Hollywood STEVE BRACKS Australian politician wants to ban bongs in Victoria state. Might disrupt the Benedictines' plan to bottle imported bong "holy water...
SUSPENDED. PETER BART, 69, Hollywood influence monger and former producer; from his post as editor of Variety, the entertainment industry's most powerful trade publication. Its owner, Cahners Business Information, said it would investigate charges made in the latest issue of Los Angeles magazine, in which anonymous sources claim that in meetings at Variety, his language was filled with offensive remarks about women, gays and minorities. The magazine quotes him as describing middle-class African Americans as "not very black" and "ghetto blacks" as those who "bury themselves in black-itude." Other charges: that he manufactured anonymous quotes, kept staff...