Word: dabblers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What a brilliant subject for a Fellini movie-and what a disappointing treatment of it. Seducer, charlatan, scribbler, dabbler in black magic, Giacomo Casanova was that most magnetic of figures, the legend with nothing lofty about him. Born in a glittering Venice that was rife with disease and intrigue, he was equally at home in scenes of Watteau-like elegance or Hogarthian stench. He roamed the capitals of Europe, living by his wits, his nerve and a nice instinct for when to get out of town. He dreamed up mining schemes and lotteries, supported himself at the card table, survived...
BURDEN--characterized by acerbic Voice press columnist Alexander Cockburn as an "outstanding argument for 100 per cent inheritance tax"--is a dabbler. He dabbles in New York City politics, where he is a city councilman. He dabbles in Manhattan society. He dabbles in journalism, and maybe journalism began to bore him. Just as Burden yawned, there was a check for $7.6 million in his mouth like a big moth, a check from Rupert Murdoch--they had mutual friends--offering him $8.25 a share for his stock. Murdoch had chartered a jet and flown to Aspen to make the offer...
...Nochlin, in fascinating detail, show exactly how it could-and did: the social conditions that militated against women's becoming "fine" artists during the Renaissance, the restrictions on literacy, training, access to professional company and guilds, the peculiar moral shibboleths, the stereotype of the cultured woman as accomplished dabbler, engaged in what George Eliot called "small tinkling and smearing." "Let men busy themselves with all that has to do with great art," trumpeted one French critic in 1860. "Let women occupy themselves with those types of art that they have always preferred, such as pastels, portraits and the painting...
HOBBIES: Journalistic Dabbler; Coors Beer Brewery, South Bend, Indiana...
...aging enfant terrible of the literary world, wise father of six children, radical intellectual, existential philosopher, hard-working author, champion of obscenity, husband of four battling sweet wives, amiable bar drinker, and much exaggerated street fighter, party giver, hostess insulter." Not bad, but incomplete. Add frustrated novelist, passionate movie dabbler, sexual scientist, terror of the TV talk shows, critic of the global village and, to the ladies of Women's Liberation, master male chauvinist...