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...LITERARY MARKET place these days seems totally absorbed in the trappings of art rather than art itself. The artist has been plugged into The American Hype Machine. He is wired, plugged in, and variously tapped to perform on the monkey circuit of talk shows, academic tea parties, State Department romps abroad, and readings...
...merely a less haphazard continuation of this same approach. The auto repair business enjoys a growing reputation for monumental rip-offs, and if the remarks of Hifzi's customers are found credible, the ad may be seen as something closer to a public service announcement than just another BIG HYPE...
...there was Manny Farber, telling me that the problem with film criticism was the hype-type language used. "Everyone has an eye on the big score," he said. "You can put the name 'Van Gogh' in place of 'Peckinpah' in the reviews Straw Dogs got--that's how obscene this obsession with greatness has become...Film is a most complex thing, you can't judge it seriously on one viewing...but after a while no one looks at it closely anymore." This wasn't prepackaged. Farber brooded, the middle of his wizened face wrinkling, and his eyes shielded from...
...band--Howard Scott, guitar; B.B. Dickerson, bass; Lonnie Jordan, keyboards; Harold Brown, drums; Papa Dee Allen, conga and bongos; Charles Miller, horns; and Lee Oskar, harmonica--also seems to be tighter and more sure of themselves. Even United Artists has gotten itself together and instead of a lot of hype the promo man just handed me the album and said, "Here, you'll like this." He couldn't have been more correct. "All Day Music," the title cut, starts the album off, and like most of the other songs it is based on a percussive, African rhythm. The various instruments...
...difference between the Driesell publicity hype of last winter, and that of this winter is that now he actually has a ballclub that can beat people. McMillen, true, is considerably overrated. He failed to make the tournament all-star team, and was not a terribly important force in either of the Terrapins' victories. Elmore, White and O'Brien carried the squad, which seemed either unwilling or unable to get the ball to McMillen inside. He is still gangly and calf-like, and there is a consistently confused expression on his face, almost as though he does not yet realize...