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Rauschenberg is best known for having opened up the tracts of imagery that were occupied in the '60s by Pop art. But as one goes through the show, skillfully boiled down by the Smithsonian's curator of 20th century painting, Walter Hopps, from Rauschenberg's enormous and dispersed output of...
Everybody knows about the power of a great idea whose time has come. What often gets overlooked is that the strength of a mediocre idea whose historical moment has arrived can be just as awesome. This is especially worth considering in the weird realm of regularly scheduled prime-time commercial...
ALTHOUGH THE PRESIDENTIAL campaign is too long and demanding, it is unlikely to change. The Presidential race will remain a process that continues, beyond the control of any of the participants, and yet reaching its periodical culmination in a choice of great importance. One such choice has just been made...
Aside from these milestones in Beckett's course through the variety of literary forms--like Joyce, he never uses an identical form twice--this anthology provides a valuable service in printing Beckett's early essay on Joyce's Work in Progress (later known as Finnegan's Wake), "Dante...Bruno. Vice...
Caudill occasionally gets carried away by excessively aghast prose ("The heart flutters in contemplation" while "the greediest mind boggles"). He does not pretend to be impartial. He does not even pretend to be fair. He is a prophet returned from his well-ravaged wilderness with a specific case which, as...