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...little bit," he says, "it will sound like I'm making fun of them". Sometimes, in Wolfe's description, these drop out forms seem as natural and organic a part of the contemporary scene as any aspect of that Mom's pie America which he dismisses like a crumb from his roll-away sleeve. At other moments, however, they resemble isolated islands of vitality just spoiling for a good fight to the finish with the moribund Mainland: lateral against vertical, Harley 74 against Country Squire station wagon, hipster against mark, today against yesteryear, WAR. And in any such conflict...

Author: By Timothy S. Mayer, | Title: Tom Wolfe | 11/24/1965 | See Source »

Last week Rauschenberg was with the ballet in Stockholm, halfway through a six-month world tour. He revisited a collage combine door that he gave the Swedish Museum of Art in 1961, and was pleased to find it in good repair-down to the last bottle cap and bread crumb. When the tour is over, he should find a nearly bare studio in Manhattan, since he asked a friend to throw out all the silk screens he made before leaving. "Art shouldn't be a pillow you can fall asleep on," says Rauschenberg, who makes art out of pillows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Most Happy Fella | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A lower-crust clerk (Alan Bates) hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of Establishment snobbery in this stylish, often superlative British satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 11, 1964 | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A lower-crust clerk (Alan Bates) hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of Establishment snobbery in this cheeky, stylish, often superlative British satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 4, 1964 | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A lower-crust clerk (Alan Bates) hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of Establishment snobbery in this cheeky, stylish, often superlative British satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 21, 1964 | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

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