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...general population. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Surgeon General warned that the threat of AIDS has made casual sex hazardous to anyone's health. The National Academy of Sciences echoed that admonition last week, predicting that heterosexual transmissions of the disease will increase sevenfold by 1991. Says Margaret A. Fischl, director of the AIDS program at the University of Miami: "Anyone who is sexually active, visits prostitutes or has casual sex needs to be concerned. The only safe...
...provoke a twinge of concern. Does Sargent signal a retreat from the standards the Whitney has battled for -- the commitment to glitz that gave us the 1985 Biennial, the taste for inflated prettiness set forth in its Alex Katz retrospective, the reluctance to edit that made Eric Fischl's show such a letdown? True, Director Tom Armstrong valiantly tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner...
...work of Eric Fischl, 43, has a quite different tone. Fischl's subject is what has been called the crisis of American identity, the failure of the American dream. From this he is assembling a wholly distinctive vision of the white middle-class social fabric, relentlessly ironic and, if not affectionate, then certainly fixated. It is packed with family tension, sexual farce and erotic misery...
...Fischl country is a place of shag carpets lit by the desolate glare of TV sets, of king-size beds seen as altars of suburban promiscuity, and blue swimming pools that slyly parody David Hockney's less tainted vision of a Californian Eden. It smells of unwashed dog, Bar-B-Q lighter fluid and sperm. It is permeated with voyeurism and resentful, secretive tumescence -- a theater of adolescent tension and adult anonymity. Fischl paints this world of failed intimacies with conviction and narrative grip: at best, his drawing is beautifully concise (though marred, at present, by too many botched...
...million, the company has built a solid repertory of 41 works, but it still finds that educating an audience can be difficult. A Swan Lake fills Atlanta's 4,400-seat Fox Theater, but modern works at the 856-seat Alliance Theater play to half a house. Yet Fischl sees signs of growing sophistication: "We still get people who giggle at the tights, but the number is dropping, and people are accepting them as just another uniform...