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...high art, but it is an often successful blend of rock and poetry...
...Grunt/RCA). A decade ago, when just a mere Airplane, the San Francisco trippers pioneered acid rock. Here is their best album in years, a free-flowing blend of rock, jazz and folk...
BUTTERFLIES by Thomas C. Emmel. 244 pages. Knopf. $29.95. Some of these rare Lepidoptera are so luminescent they produce optical shock. Even the commoner varieties blend the lyrical with the clinical, intriguing both scientist and layman. Accompanying facts are as remarkable as the closeup images. The ubiquitous orange monarch, for example, is the only true round-trip migrant among the world's 20,000 species. Although only one family of butterflies is called satyrs, most males exhibit an aggressive libido as soon as they emerge from the chrysalis-they can detect females by odor, flight signals, and ultraviolet waves...
...STUDIES from "Newtonian Disks", which follow that painting in sequence down the ramp of the Guggenheim museum, blend almost imperceptibly into studies for "Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors." This painting is too large to be hung where it should chronologically be placed; one has to descend in suspense through Kupka's "pseudo-Expressionist," "pseudo-Mondrian" and "art deco" periods before finding it, at the bottom. "Fugue," painted in 1912, is indeed greater than anything else Kupka ever did. It represents a culmination of his nonprofessional interests--astronomy, music, and mysticism--as well as his artistic abilities: his skill with color...
...performance, because the cast of supporting characters is perfectly competent. Tony Gittelson, as Allan's friend Dick Christie, captures the essence of the New York corporate man attached to his telephone as if it were an umbilical cord. His wife Linda (Lisa Wolfson) is presented with just the right blend of hard ambition and self-doubt. But the core is missing; without a sufficiently interesting Allan to play off of, these peripheral characters remain self-contained and unable to compensate for the show's central failure...