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...shots are home watching T.V.--the draft beer is only 25 cents a hit. Second, on weekends--even though the tap is shut off and bottled beer is pawned at 75 cents--there is live entertainment of several varieties. The scheduled entertainment is the music. A disc jockey pulls out the cases and cases of 45s he's collected from the fifties and early sixties and spins them on his record player, set up in one of the corner booths. Then, once the place starts rocking, the unscheduled but not unexpected entertainment begins...
...David Smith, represented by ten sculptures across the lawn. But then Smith's work was always conceived in terms of landscape or, more exactly, the heroic domination of landscape by icon; it is essentially outdoor and declamatory sculpture. Thus the silver tracery left by Smith's disc grinder on the stainless steel only comes alive in sunlight; spotlights kill it. Smith's constructions of forged and welded iron, like Wagon II, 1964, also force themselves on the out-of-doors by their density as metaphor...
...would have it. In the grayness of the day came the epochal desegregation decision; through the fever of the Kefauver hearings the acute viewer could perceive a glimpse of the Mafia mind. Amid the treacle of Your Hit Parade, a few vinegary notes could be heard from the vulgarian disc jockeys, Alan Freed and Dick Clark. They were the early life signs of rock, a message that the Broadway melody was finished. In the art galleries, Jackson Pollock outraged onlookers with his whorls and spillages. On stage Elvis gyrated, and on screen Brando steamed. In the audience, the kids began...
...lange of show business careers followed, some of them successful. Dale cut a few records, but "after a while that got boring." He followed with a six-month spin as a disc jockey, spent two years as host of a daytime TV comedy show and wrote songs for films like Georgy Girl and Shalako. He also played a variety of antic characters in 13 films in the Carry On ... series, and there he perfected his tumbledown, knockabout maneuvers. "Falling is an art," he says. "It's a matter of relaxing and of knowing which part of the body will...
...real find here is the ballet score Appalachian Spring, presented for the first time on disc in the version for 13 instruments (strings, woodwinds, piano) originally written for Martha Graham in 1944. Lighter and leaner than Copland's later scoring for full orchestra, this interpretation is an exquisite way to rehear - or meet - one of the homespun classics of 20th century American music...