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...preamble to his immense glass-and-metal masterwork The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. This rich, elusive composition is a bulwark against interpretation; it contains satires and celebrations of mechanics, Christian mysticism and sexual fantasy−including some of Duchamp's cherished obsessions, a "male" chocolate grinder and a mechanical bride with a reservoir of "love gasoline." The Bride is no facile construction, as Duchamp makes clear in detailed annotations reminiscent of Da Vinci's code notebooks. The artist worked on his construction for eight years, then abandoned his Bride...
...like going to the circus with the organ grinder...
...products under a variety of exotic pseudonyms (like O.R. Gann, "a leading authoress," or "the struggling Nigerian author, S. Odomy"). He also adopts a zealously sleazy lifestyle and a cheap line of patter to fit his chosen profession. No sooner has Mickey polished off his newest thriller, The Organ Grinder, than he is approached by an unlikely p.r. type named Ben Dinunccio (Lionel Stander) with a mysterious proposition that turns out to be a commission to ghostwrite the autobiography of Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney). Gilbert is a runt who grew into Hollywood's No. 1 celluloid hoodlum...
...Harvard there are also sports for those who don't want to kill themselves and would rather save their limbs for old age. And there are opportunities to learn a new sport if you are so inclined. Track at Harvard is not the machine grinder one finds at Villanova or Penn. It is geared to the individual, and while it requires long, lonely hours, it is not a physical do-or-die situation. Harvard's track team is a pretty hang-loose group of guys who run because they like to run rather than for any other reason. The program...
...from Taverner, his treatment of the usual choirs of the orchestra has enough richness and fireworks (ignited in masterly fashion by Conductor Edward Downes) to placate the most avid devotees of Richard Strauss. Davies' hair-raising special effects-massed percussion, squealing clarinets, even the grating of a knife grinder-should be enough to titillate John Cage...