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CREATE A SIEGE MENTALITY It is now obvious that the Rhodes scholar turned President likes to pull all-nighters and actually performs best when his presidential prestige is at stake. Early in the year, White House officials insisted that the helter-skelter quality of the place would even out over time and eventually resemble other presidencies. But the line has changed, and officials now realize that Clinton does best in an atmosphere of siege, likes to make enormous changes at the last minute, and takes some comfort in knowing that however bad it might seem now, it was even worse...
Giardi also led the team in carries with 18 (for 39 yards). But that number is abnormally high: Because he is under pressure so much, designed pass plays all too frequently turn into helter-skelter scrambles for survival...
...RISKS OF SUCH A TITLE are apparent," the catalog of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art prissily begins, " -- that the grisly and gruesome Charles Manson murders would be glorified, that the show would seem to be about the sixties . . ." Aw, c'mon, just because we call an exhibition "Helter Skelter," you wouldn't necessarily think better of Charlie aging away there in maximum security, would you? A pity the curator in question, Paul Schimmel, won't come out with it: We want a lurid title but, hey, we're a museum. Maybe we need a bit of sensationalism...
...BOTTOM LINE: Helter Skelter? The title says it all. You thought the art of the 1980s was bad? This is worse...
...armor. Really bad art is probably invulnerable to criticism, and so it is with this slumgullion. If you thought new American art couldn't get much worse than it was by the end of the 1980s, visit MOCA and learn. It isn't Charles Manson you think of in "Helter Skelter" but John Milton on the topography of the netherworld: "And in the lowest depths, a lower depth." The thesis of the show is that just below the sunny promotional surface of Los Angeles there is a stratum of alienation, murder, bad dreams and apocalyptic fantasies that reflect themselves inexorably...