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...Donald, the only escape is to read book after book. Michael, worried about getting old, stays alive with the help of self-deprecating wisecracks ("Well, one thing you can say about masturbation...you certainly don't have to look your best"), new, expensive clothes and plane tickets to faraway places he can't afford...
...closed, 35,000 Frenchmen had flocked to the Grand Palais to see it. In Berlin, 15,000 poured through the Amerika Haus during a six-week showing, and in London the Sunday Times commented admiringly: "We seem here to be offered the image of a vanished people and a faraway mode of life reflected in an eye as clear and sharp and unobsequious as a bird...
Then the Miami seance and Chicago bloodletting, and the profane act of seeing such things on such a mechanism. The dim realization wends upward that the blood on these domestic streets and the blood on those faraway oriental hills flows through common vessels...
Once considered incurable stay-at-homes, the French have spilled out of their country in recent years to explore the world in greater numbers than have any other Europeans. Airline offices, with their posters showing faraway places, have taken over the Champs-Elysées, and last week the press announced that a new airbus treaty would be signed with Germany. It is no longer unusual to find a barber in Antibes or a salesgirl in Lyon who has visited the U.S. ?or anywhere else?as a tourist. Practically everyone, it seems, has made a summertime visit to the Spanish...
...process of celebrating "process," Sturtevant has also rendered herself somewhat ridiculous (she once slathered herself with shaving foam to pose for her version of Man Ray's photograph of Marcel Duchamp). This disturbs her not one whit. "I have no place at all," she says, with a faraway look in her eye, "except in relation to the total structure. What interests me is not communicating but creating change. Some people feel that a great change in esthetics in general is happening, though few understand exactly why. Mainly, there is a great deal of anxiety...