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...Roth's previous work, it most closely resembles "On the Air" (New American Review No. 10), a fevered collage of oldtime-radio-programs-as-later-day-confidence-men as they invade the life of a threatened Jewish father. It's Roth's particular talent (or, to be more exact, one of Roth's particular talents) to be able to extract what's most nightmarish in the onslaught of our national life and to try to exorcise the terror by blowing it up beyond all tenable proportions...
...collector who multiplies the confusion--and, in these days of gay lib, his ability to get away with a lisp and a swish attests to a great degree of style. Kazarus reappears as an immigrant repairman and Melissa Mueller shows up again as Clea, a second girlfriend whose exact motivation--if you're even inclined to bother about such matters after her most striking entrance--could be slightly troublesome. This time McCleary's set--an enormous funhouse of a room with hints of Aubrey Beardsley in its moldings--has little to do with its owners by any realistic measure...
...hidden forks in American art history was reached on Jan. 29, 1948, when a painter named Barnett Newman painted a thin, rough orange stripe down the exact center of a small dark red canvas, and left it alone. It is hardly an exaggeration that most of the symmetrical format, stripe, minimal, and otherwise post-De Kooning art produced in New York in the '60s refers, in the end, to this modest picture that Newman called Onement I. Newman's ruthless pursuit of the implications of this canvas both split his work from the main...
Confucius once said, "A musical note is worth a thousand words." This exact evaluation may be a little off because of the Oriental yen for the arts, but with the President's price feeze, the exchange rate must be roughly equivalent. In any case, the sports board has decided to relinquish-this-space to the editorial page for some in depth analysis of the powers behind the football world: The battles of the bands...
...meetings for the Union and South Yard dormitories will be held at 8 p.m. tonight. Notices giving the exact locations will be posted...