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Died. Harry Hershfield, 89, perennial master of ceremonies, raconteur, columnist and cartoonist; in Manhattan. Hershfield first exercised his wit as the cartoonist-creator of the Desperate Desmond and Abie the Agent comic strips. In the 1940s he gained a wide following as one of the three gagmen who tried to tell funnier stories than the radio audience of Can You Top This? A leading light on the "rubber chicken circuit" for more than 50 years, Hershfield was famous for such sententiae as: "A conscience cannot prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying...
...West, this might be known as the Year of Sherlock Holmes. He is on the bestseller lists in a novel entitled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, in which Sigmund Freud allies himself with Holmes, sharing, among other things, a mutual addiction to cocaine. Books about Holmes and his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already formidable in number, are proliferating with the breeding speed of the fruit fly. One Manhattan bookstore has an entire window display devoted solely to these works. There is only one James Joyce Society, but in the U.S. alone there are four official groups of ardent Sherlock...
...exactly like awning cloth and hang them anonymously in public places. "Form, art's quest throughout the centuries," writes Buren, 36, "becomes a matter of no interest, superfluous and anachronistic. Of course then art is bound to disappear . . . Creating, producing, is henceforth of only relative interest, and the creator, the producer, no longer has any reason to glorify 'his' product...
Brassai brings to all his work a rare combination of intelligence and intuition. He is a deliberate creator, patient and painstaking, with a deep committment to the demands of both art and humanity. If he had never chanced to discover his aptitude for taking pictures Paris would have had another biographer but the art of photography would have been immeasurably poorer...
...kind of man who has been acceptable," says Lindsay Kemp, and so far, no one has really given him an argument. Kemp, 34, is the Scottish creator, director and star of an unusual Broadway entertainment called Flowers, in which bizarre, dream-tinged themes involving homosexuality, masturbation, drag parties and transvestism are set forth in mime and in music. On opening night Mick Jogger sent Kemp a basket of lilies, and the critics sent Kemp a bouquet of reviews in which outrage mingled with fascination. "I don't want to shock people," retorts Kemp. "I want to astonish them...