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This affluent society has two celebrity economists. Milton Friedman is the short conservative one. The other, of course, is the 6-ft. 8-in. liberal John Kenneth Galbraith. The styles of these distinguished gentlemen also differ greatly. Wreathed in affability, Friedman delivers the chilly news that life is not fair. In contrast, Galbraith assumes the demeanor of a hanging judge and drolly intimates that life does not have to be as unfair as Professor Friedman says...
...neither blank nor expressive, but simply there-a topographical essay, like a fulsomely detailed map that has somehow acquired the gratuitousness of art. One is sharply reminded, after a little time in this show, that Close's real subject is not people: the heads, as Art Historian Martin Friedman points out in his catalogue essay, are "portraits of photographs," and their aggregation of detail forces us to reflect on process-how they were made, why they need to carry so much information. They are conceptual art, of a kind: Idea before Painting. What other realist painter comes near this...
...BEGINNING of Talley's Folly, it looks like Lanford Wilson has set out to illustrate a most commonplace idea: that opposites attract. The two characters that comprise his cast start at the antipodes of American society. Matt Friedman is a Lithuanian Jewish accountant, gray suit, beard and wire glasses, Mittel-European accent and Henny Youngman-style jokes. Sally Talley springs from a factory-owning Ozark tamily, works as a nurse in an army hospital (it's 1944) and has a jaw locked as tight as a cashbox. The two are not a very probable couple...
After a failed squeeze attempt, two Harvard baserunners--Gill Raney and Alissa Friedman--found themselves sharing third base, but the Unicorn infield allowed Friedman to return to second safely...
...Norton HARVARD (6) AB R H BI Jahovic, cf 1 0 0 0 Bernstein, ss 4 1 0 0 Horne, 3b 4 2 1 0 Holpuch, lf 4 1 3 1 Schools, 1b 3 0 0 1 Ippolito, rf 2 1 0 0 Raney, c 4 1 2 0 Friedman, 2b 2 0 0 1 Boutillier, p 4 0 0 0 Moore, pr 0 0 0 0 30 6 6 3 WHEATON (3) Murtna, lf 4 0 0 0 Brigham, ss 3 1 0 0 Jenrey, 2b 4 1 2 1 Sheppard, c 2 1 1 0 Sinclair...