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...Madonna which is being eaten by maggots, and they don't know how it got there. There is also some stuff about communication, and Gould gets the chance to glower the word "touch", or one of its close derivatives, an astounding seven times in the space of a single breathless close...
...West that every sketch, painting or dish tends to be greeted with the same ritually stupefied reverence. Hence la légende Picasso, which has been energetically prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends to his studio...
...McLuhan by turning down a chance at the show "because I loved the record." On LP, Jesus Christ Superstar is abstract, intimate, capable of subtly engaging the mind and the imagination. Director O'Horgan's frenetic Broadway incarnation is rarely any of those things. It is, instead, a frequently breathless and occasionally stupendous son et lumière show, crowded with mechanical contrivances, and a headlong rush of happenings that, as designer Robin Wagner puts it, "overlap like arrows in flight...
Heavy Freight. Yet Wonderland is anything but a catalogue of cheap shocks and thrills. It is in fact the author's most ambitious novel-a long and breathless ghost hunt that attempts to confront that elusive subject, human personality. Where does it reside? More important, is it relatively stable or does it change faster than most people dare to think...
...addition to its other distinctions, Chicago has traditionally been a terrific newspaper town, with lively dailies rolling out breathless new editions all day long. As Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur related in The Front Page, competition among Chicago papers in the 1920s was fierce-and sometimes violent. Today's newspaper battle is less bloody but scarcely less frantic. Circulation campaigns are fought with radio and TV spots instead of hired toughs, and an exclusive is more often a series of sober public service articles about mental health than a blaring bannerline scoop about a trunk murder. But Chicago remains...