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...Like many coaches, U.C.L.A.'s John Wooden professes that "illegal recruiting is the bane of college athletics." He is virtually alone, however, in wanting to abolish the flesh trade altogether on the grounds that "our universities should stand on their own merits." Rival coaches, victimized by Wooden basketball teams that have won 75 consecutive games and seven straight national championships, understandably scoff at the proposal. Wooden, they say, can afford to take such an upright stand because U.C.L.A. has long attracted the best high school players on prestige alone. Last week, in fact, Richard Washington of Portland, Ore., considered...
...PROUD FLESH...
...Proud Flesh includes, however, one fine set piece of the absurd: the mock-epic failure of a farmer named Hugo to get his cotton to the town gin, in a truck with five bad tires (counting the spare), on a road monopolized by a brindled milch cow named Trixie. Here calculated excess works in the cause of comic relief, suggesting that the future of the Southern novel may belong to the tall tale rather than further variations on the gothic. Melvin Maddocks
Bucky's girl friend Opal is in worse shape. Poisoned by drugs and suffering from chronic time lag due to constant travel, she can barely distinguish herself from her luggage. Meanwhile, the schlock rock of the '70s goes on. (For a flesh-and-blood reference, see the recent issue of Rolling Stone, in which Drag Star Alice Cooper says: "The sicker all you kids get, the greater the shows we'll have...
...small ones. His spray technique has a finer grain, so to speak, than staining or brushing, and it creates surfaces which because they cover the canvas completely are not immediately scaled by the weave of the cloth. And in his paintings of this year and last, particularly the Other Flesh series, he employs rollers and sponges with a syrupy acrylic, using the edges built up by rolled paint to create a repeated width across the canvas. These paintings use the rolled edge as internal drawing, uniting form and field, or establish a new kind of painterliness in a surface teased...