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The classic point to be made about American pop music is that so many types of music emerged with so few lines in common. Bakshi seems to realize this, putting Scott and Janis Joplin, Fabian, and Lou Reed songs in the same movie. But by trying to make more connections...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: American Popaganda | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

Contrary to many interpretations, Fuentes asserts that his works are not auto-biographical. "I find my own biography uninteresting within this larger (sociopolitical) canvas. Maybe one day I'll write a book of memoirs or publish my letters as an old gentleman."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lengthy Career | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

Recent decorative tendencies in American art are sampled at the Whitney but ignored in both the Guggenheim and the Hirshhorn. The idea of an art, abstract or figurative, that is entirely hedonistic, anxiety-free and without social resonance is not, of course, new in America. That was what most abstract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quirks, Clamors and Variety | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

Like an artist making the first brush marks on a blank canvas, President Reagan last week set out the initial signs of his Administration's economic program. In three swift strokes, he decontrolled domestic oil prices, abolished the moribund Council on Wage and Price Stability, and placed a 60...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taming the Monster | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

"It was an uncontrollable, instantaneous vibration" that struck Belgian Artist Jean Verame, 44, in the Sinai Desert. The Sinai's relief is crazy," he says, "its density is fabulous." He simply had to paint it. But not on canvas. The artist's plan was to decorate the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 2, 1981 | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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