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...Orient is now being flooded with Mao-carve. On display in Hong Kong are 1,000 statuettes, vases, panels and scrolls dedicated to the greater glory of the Chinese People's Republic. The titles are unlikely to win their authors any new accounts on Madison Avenue (typical stone-hewn example: Take Firm Hold of the Revolution, Promote Production). But if visitors can manage to avoid reading the copy, they will certainly be diverted by the eye-rolling ingenuity...
...Winthrop House Festival began last Tuesday evening with the music of the Belgian avantgarde composer Henri Pousseur. Assisted by pianist Marcelle Mercenier, Pousseur provided an evening of mixed successes and failures, a program of roughly hewn brilliance which can still stand improvement...
...form experimentation. Moviemakers at rival U.S.C. try to put a high professional gloss on their products and are very Hollywood-conscious-so much so that one professor recently complained about the plethora of student parodies of Bonnie and Clyde. N.Y.U. students, by contrast, tend to turn out deliberately rough-hewn works with the grainy look of neorealistic, cinema-verite documentaries-a reflection, perhaps, of the fact that most of their films are shot on location in the streets of nearby Greenwich Village...
...country, one of the scenic delights used to be the handsomely weather-beaten, quaintly dilapidated barns that lined rural roads. The pleasure is fast vanishing. From New England to the Midwest, the old barns are being dismantled by barn buyers who covet their richly textured boards and hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color TVs, and even...
Frock Coats & Turbans. In its permutations, the San Francisco Sound encompasses everything from bluegrass to Indian ragas, from Bach to jug-band music-often within the framework of a single song. It is a raw, raucous, rough-hewn sound that has the spark and spontaneity of a free-for-all jam session. Most of the groups write their own songs and, unlike most rock 'n' rollers, improvise freely, building climax upon climax in songs that run on for 20 minutes or more. It is a compelling entreaty to open up, tune in and turn on. Says one regular...