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GREAT LINES still abound, of course. Anyone who could construct the following commentary on Proust obviously had not lost it all. "In Steinberg's judgement--and he buttresses it with a formidable array of interior evidence from the work--Proust's Madeleine was in reality a matzo ball, and the past unfolded itself to the Master as he sat hunched over a bowl of chicken soup in Flambaum's, the famous kosher restaurant in Paris..." And, almost invariably, the Perelman opening moves are as fine as always. For example, the beginning of "All Precincts Beware--Pater Tigress Loose...
Sandwiched between Interstate 84 and Route 7, the lifelines of Connecticut's suburban sprawl, the 142-acre fairground was gobbled up by Wilmorite Inc., a Rochester, N.Y. , development firm. Wilmorite plans to construct one of New England's largest shopping malls, with more than a million square feet of commercial space. It will be called the Danbury Fair Mall, and the developers anticipate that it will draw nearly 35,000 customers a day, generate between $200 million and $300 million in sales annually, and stand in blacktop splendor as a testimonial to the properous future of Danbury...
Jordan's urging of a return to the Johnsonian "Great Society" is starlingly lacking in specifics. In order to construct a more just society we must know precisely who needs help and who does not. To attempt to solve the problems of "Black people" is absurd. If any white politician spoke of solving the problems of "white people," he would rightly be ridiculed. Yet according to the Bureau of the Census, in the U.S. today there exists a more unequal distribution of income among Black families than there is among white families. In 1977 the two-fifthe of Black families...
...that, one can gladly put up with the obscurities of his political work. It is Kitaj's drawing that convinces one of the integrity of his search. Perhaps it is not given to any single painter to do what he is trying to do-to construct a narrative, ironic and didactic art that can stand clear of stories, jokes and propaganda. But one must respect the man for trying...
...into the cultural crapshoot, hopes to have a pay-TV system ready sometime in 1983, at a cost of something like $13.95 a month to a potential 360,000 subscribers. PBS, which stands for Public Broadcasting System and not, as critics joke, Poor, Beleaguered and Subsidized, is trying to construct an alliance that would include its 280 member stations and such organizations as the Metropolitan Opera and the Detroit Symphony. Though nothing is definite, its programming presumably would be along the lines of its present Great Performances series...