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Stamaty is the creator of "Washingtoon," a cartoon featured in each issue of The Village Voice, and reprinted weekly in The Washington Post. Congdon & Weed has published the serialized strip in a book, giving readers a prolonged look at Stamaty's notable knack for capturing in detail the mood and idiosyncrasies of our nation's capital during Reagan's tenure. As a chronicle of the reign of the New Right, the book is as depressing as it is funny...
...total totalitarianism finally arrived? Not really. Simply a group of avant-gardists greeting the new year with a public television, cross-Atlantic extravaganza dedicated to George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and "the first media prophet and philosopher." That's the view of the program's creator, Video Virtuoso Nam June Paik, 51, who intends to show television as a "liberating" force, not fraught with the "negative aspects" emphasized by Orwell. To this end, he has enlisted the talents of a curious assortment of the old-and new-wave garde, including Performance Artist Laurie Anderson, 36, Composers...
Saddest Alien: E.T., who found that being box-office champ could not keep him (and his creator Steven Spielberg) from getting trampled in the Oscar race by Gandhi...
...designer, who used 5,000 colors and textures of glass to confect his fanciful, flower-bedecked shades. For 40 years his Long Island foundries turned out the lamps that cast a gaudy glow in U.S. homes. Then Tiffany objects went out of style, and in the early 1930s their creator went bankrupt. In the late 1950s an art nouveau boom sent dealers scouring the attics of old mansions and manors for castoff Tiffany lamps. Would-be collectors may weep: a lamp much like Cobweb, which originally cost about $500, fetched a record $360,000 at auction three years...
Many Harvard soap opera fans tore themselves away from their usual afternoon viewing schedules to meet the creator of some of their favorite shows...