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...were more contemporary accents drowned out. The 30-year-old Guitarist John McLaughlin led his Mahavishnu Orchestra through a shattering set of jazz-rock at Carnegie Hall. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard turned in a fiery performance as a stand-in for Miles Davis. And the "Connoisseur Concerts" that Wein booked into Carnegie Hall presented such acquired tastes as the abstract expressionism of Pianist Cecil Taylor. In all, there was enough youth and promise on stage -and in the audiences-to make the festival a meeting ground not only of the past and present, but of the past and future as well...
...introduced their "natural" ice cream flavors they were making a big pitch for the counter-culture crowd. But they still attract the same tired working girls waiting for the bus, the sticky-fingered adolescents with jimmies on their chins, and the wide-eyed passers-through. No real ice cream connoisseur would brave these ice cream desperados when Brigham's is flanked by Bailey's and Baskin-Robbins...
Last year in New York Resnais met Stan Lee, the creator of Spiderman and the Fantastic Four comics. They had dinner together and Resnais, a comic book collector and connoisseur since childhood, was delighted. "I had read everything he had written for the last ten years. I was totally hooked, and I was surprised to find that the writer was such a lovable person. He told me that he has written more than 7000 stories, and would like to try something else...
...emblems that Alex and his mates wear so defiantly on their bully-boy costumes. When Alex swats at the Cat Lady's sculptured schlong, she screams: "Leave that alone, don't touch it! It's a very important work of art!" This pathetic burst of connoisseur's jargon echoes in a vast cultural emptiness. In worlds like this, no work of art can be important...
American Indian Art by Norman Feder. 445 pages. Abrams. $35. A connoisseur's collection of Indian painting, weaving, carving and mask designs put together by the Denver Museum director responsible for the fine Indian art show now at Manhattan's Whitney Museum (TIME. Dec. 6). Amid a plethora of the overupholstered and overpriced, this book is a notable example of wampum well spent...