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Endless Love, Scott Spencer's third novel, produced the stuff of most writers' daydreams. Although not all reviewers loved its explicit portrayal of obsessive passion, the book sold well, developed a cult following among young people and some of their elders, and in 1981 was made into a bad but attention-getting movie starring Brooke Shields. Such pleasurable success also breeds pressure. Endless Love was not, as publishers like to announce, long awaited. Waking the Dead...
...Greensteins sitting in baby cribs and musing about a "talking orangutan." Customers routinely barge into Coronet demanding to see the TV stars, and trendy Manhattan nightclubs such as Danceteria, Chuckles and the Comic Strip have hired them to perform the orangutan skit onstage. Chortles Wayne: "We've become cult figures...
...rimless glasses, thinning hair and off-the-rack gray suit make him look more like a middle-management bureaucrat than the leader of a paranoid political cult. But when Lyndon LaRouche opens his mouth, the conspiracy theories come tumbling out. In a rare public appearance last week at the National Press Club, LaRouche leveled a litany of accusations at the likes of White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan (for "drug-money laundering" while head of Merrill Lynch), former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy (for financing the Weatherman radicals in the late 1960s), and even one Agnes Harrison...
...publicity is to LaRouche's benefit. Since the LaRouchites' win in Illinois, the Democratic Party is screening local candidates to weed out LaRouche followers. Moreover, continued exposure may sink his cult in a sea of ridicule. Said Wesley McCune, director of Washington-based Group Research Inc., which studies right-wing organizations: "Now everybody can see just how crazy...
...living painters of whom this seems to be true is Antonio Lopez Garcia, whose paintings, drawings and sculpture are currently on view at the Marlborough Gallery in New York City. At 50, Lopez bears a large reputation in his native Spain and has become (no avoiding the term) a cult figure among younger Madrid painters. In New York, whose sense of current European art can be irritatingly provincial, he is scarcely known at all. The main reason for this--apart from the difficulty some people have in judging serious figurative painting and distinguishing it from common illustration--is that Lopez...