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...wood molds in his studio, takes them to a factory, where he supervises the casting process. - Douglas Wheeler, 29, studied at Los Angeles' Chouinard Art Institute, and was strongly influenced by Irwin. In 1964 he began experimenting with lights cast onto an easel painting, soon found the canvas format constricting. He rented an old department store in the rundown beach town of Venice, and began transforming entire rooms into oases of light. Today he mounts large, square sheets of Plexiglas on the wall, paints them white, attaches neon tubes behind the edges. By some alchemy of optical illusion, this...
...line show is one of the most discredited forms of radio programming. What could be more unedifying than know-nothing listeners phoning in their philosophies to know-it-all ex-disk jockeys? But this summer the United Methodist Church is making judicious use of the format. It is sponsoring a radio dialogue between the races that is more compelling than any heard on the sudden multitude of such talk shows, including those produced...
...turn name dropping and voyeurism into a joyous, journalistic living. His detractors appear to be in the minority, however, and to the 30,000 readers who have thus far bought his recent book, Do You Sleep in the Nude?, he is a fascinating gossip who has recast the interview format in his own bitchy image. Son of a Texas oil-company supervisor, Reed spent his formative years in the South traveling from oil boom to oil boom (13 schools, straight A's, a degree in journalism from Louisiana State). He dabbled in acting before he broke into print three...
...such insights, a subscriber pays $50 a year; so far, 1,000 have signed up. They may find that the message of Dew-Line does not vary much from issue to issue, though the format does. The first issue, for example, was more of a traditional newsletter, with four pages of closely spaced type celebrating the arrival of the software age. Other surprises are in store, including phonograph records. Still, for a man who considers printed words obsolete, McLuhan seems to be addicted to them...
...talk shows aside, commentary is increasingly moving into straight news programs. ABC, in particular, recently revamped its news format to make room for more discussion and debate, interspersing its regular coverage with the broadcast equivalent of columns. Publisher Bill Moyers, former White House aide, recently went on camera to predict that the next President will be faced with "a national political nervous breakdown." Critic Marya Mannes razzed fashion models who have "no visible sexual equipment." Other commentaries have ranged from the trivial to the trenchant. Samples...