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...most con brio feud of the decade. Engaging in a bit of pre-publication drumbeating last spring, Libman disclosed that her book would challenge the familiar portrait of Stravinsky in his later years-a portrait produced by his literary collaborations with his co-conductor, aide and surrogate son Robert Craft (TIME, June...
...which, as his personal manager and sometime member of the Stravinsky menage, she knew the composer. For one thing, he was more sparing with words, less waspish as a polemicist. For another, the lady maintains, many of the words were not the composer's at all; they were Craft's. As she sees it, Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez was correct when he accused Craft of "a great falsification of the image of Stravinsky...
...seer for the New York Review of Books, and a chatty armchair philosopher in his own autobiographical books, waxing eloquent about the latest techniques in computer music, Beethoven sonatas, new plays, new ballets, the Panthers, and maxi fashions. The obvious conclusion is that the writer was mostly Craft...
German air lanes are crowded not only by private planes and gliders but by the military aircraft of seven air forces: West Germany's own, the U.S., British, French, Dutch, Belgian and Danish. Commercial pilots have charged that fighter planes deliberately use passenger craft as targets for dummy runs, which is like playing chicken at the speed of sound. By refusing to allot more personnel and modern equipment to air traffic control, Bonn is playing a similar game of chicken with passengers' lives...
What makes a crummy little movie like Super Fly worth getting angry about is the implication behind it: that movies made for black audiences have to be, or can easily be, so casually and contemptuously awful. Such movies are not even made with the same care or craft as the 90-minute features cranked out for television. They portray all black men as diddy-boppers or street-corner hustlers, all white men as drooling, craven criminals, and women of any complexion as whimpering sex machines. They lack the energy and dignity of good action melodrama. Super Fly and movies like...