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RICHARD ZOGLIN, our media critic, changed one long-standing habit while working on this week's story on NBC News. "I always watch the nightly news at 6:30," he says, "but I mix it up by watching a different network every night." For the past few weeks, however, he taped all three news shows in order to compare what each was doing. Zoglin believes that despite the pressures of the marketplace, all three major networks produce basically serious and responsible news broadcasts, yet "NBC has probably moved further away from the traditional newscast, and its success is causing everyone...
CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY, our pop-music critic, knows the angst of passing judgment on artists like his subject this week, singer Erykah Badu. So he was much relieved when his own debut novel, My Favorite War, won favorable reviews last year. "Fast, funny and furious," is how the Boston Globe described his satirical yarn of a young African-American journalist (not unlike Farley) laboring for a national publication (not unlike USA Today, his previous employer) in Washington during the Gulf War. Now HBO has optioned My Favorite War for a made-for-cable movie, a prospect that can make even...
There wasn't much social criticism in New York Dada, though some of its members were clearly ticked off by the conservative character of the American art world. Picabia even satirized Alfred Stieglitz--whose 291 gallery was the main rallying point for modernist artists like Constantin Brancusi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley--as an impotent figure, a camera with a collapsed bellows. Dove himself had a prod at the reviewing establishment in The Critic, 1925--a figure meant to represent Royal Cortissoz, the much feared conservative who had dubbed modernism "Ellis Island art." It is a paper...
...have allayed the fears of the small but significant number of Republicans who were leery of re-electing him while he remained under an ethical cloud. Connecticut's Chris Shays, who had threatened to abstain unless the report was released, and New York's Peter King, a vocal Gingrich critic, came back into the fold, both pledging to vote for Newt on Jan. 7. What remains, however, is the problem House Republicans feared still more: daily partisan warfare over Gingrich that will make it even more difficult for their diminished majority to accomplish anything meaningful...
DIED. VANCE PACKARD, 82, critic of American consumerism whose 1957 best-selling book The Hidden Persuaders exposed the advertising technique of using subliminal messages to sell products; in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts...