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Stringbean and The Fur Cost Club--Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 2:30 p.m.; Off the Wall Cinema, 15 Pearl...
Little is offered to ameliorate these spasms of despair. Daniel questions his father about the old man's grandparents, a French-Canadian fur trader and a Blackfoot Indian woman. But seeking his heritage only makes the son realize how much of it has been lost. Seeing unknown relatives at his father's wake, Daniel muses: "For me, they brought with them a crude air as of a settlement in the woods of people of strange blood, a settlement which was not really a success." Reconstructing a gathering his family had held some 20 years earlier, he recalls...
Nixon declines to comment about the new revelations. He is protected from fur ther prosecution for any crimes committed during his presidency by President Ford's full pardon in 1974. Haldeman, now living in California, said, "I really don't care what's on the tapes. They're ten years old." But the former President's lawyers, in their continuing effort to keep the 4,000 hours of unreleased Nixon tapes private, may raise a ruckus over how the newly disclosed transcript found its way into the Times. Hersh, who is writing a book about...
...which belong in psychiatric journals or future editions of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. We meet Dale, a 33-year-old man who is deeply upset each day by the late afternoon sun. There is Tim, a boy of three who won't eat in the presence of fur, fuzz or feathers. And there is the young man so traumatized by an incestual experience of his youth he "spent most of his waking hours in elaborate rituals of bathing." This is the stuff of grade B movies. It is also the stuff on which Wolpe comes to rely...
...exhibitions that rarely failed to create an uproar. The avant-garde sculpture he imported for a 1936 show so bewildered U.S. Customs officials that they refused to recognize it as art and tried to levy heavy duties. His decision to display such objects as an oval wheel and a fur-lined teacup irked the museum's trustees, and one show devoted entirely to an elaborate shoeshine stand crafted by little-known Primitive Artist Joe Milone nearly got him fired. But he also presented landmark shows on surrealism, Dada, Bauhaus architecture, machine design and artists from Edward Hopper to Claes...