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...Luis Obispo, Calif., on a marijuana charge, Leary escaped with the help of the Weathermen. The radical political group praised Leary, saying "LSD and grass will help us make a future world where it will be possible to live in peace." Indeed, the title for The Whole Earth Catalog, the how-to manual first published in 1968 for this imminent garden of earthly delights, came to its editor with the help of 100 micrograms...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Organized by Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez, director of the Prado, and Eleanor A. Sayre, the eminent Goya scholar who is curator emeritus of drawings, prints and photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, the show is a curatorial masterpiece. Its catalog, with essays by Perez Sanchez and Sayre as well as other art historians such as Boston University's Fred Licht, is both a summary of existing Goya scholarship and a breaking of much new ground. Its theme is explicit: to show Goya's role in the Spanish Enlightenment, to present...
...Records, which last year became a subsidiary of Japan's Sony, agreed to pay more than $35 million for Tree International, the last big independent country-music publisher in Nashville. The Tree catalog contains some 35,000 songs, including such hits as Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel, Roger Miller's King of the Road and Willie Nelson's Crazy. Says CBS Records president Tommy Mottola: "We're going to build a music-publishing empire...
...catalog essays by Christiansen and Carl Brandon Strehlke are a fine guide to the social background and doctrinal meaning of these religious comic strips. Packed with meaning, reasonable in size, this is the kind of show that the Met used to do superbly -- and now does not do often enough...
...former First Lady has produced Wildflowers Across America (Abbeville; 309 ! pages; $39.95) and will donate her royalties to help support the center. The botanical handbook is illuminated with photographs of extraordinary clarity and includes instructions on how to make your own meadow, something not yet in the Neiman-Marcus catalog...