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Marden's work reminds one how silly was the death-of-abstract-art talk heard so much at the start of the '80s, as foolish as the death-of-painting cant in the '70s. Much of the work of younger American artists remains abstract, whether "decorative" (Alan Shields, Valerie Jaudon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Careerism and Hype Amidst the Image Haze | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

The cabarets are modeled after the Midnight Cabaret held last March, at which the improvisation group, On Thin Ice, was featured with other actors and singers. That event raised $600 for the H-R Summer Theatre.

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Theater Raises Funds With Cabaret Shows | 6/5/1985 | See Source »

In this cabaret the guiding idea is improvisation. Most of the dozen or so skits in each revue are scripted and rehearsed, but they begin life as spontaneous vignettes developed at the end of each night's performance, when the audience is asked to yell out ideas for the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Still Crazy After All These Years | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Naturally, improvisation is sometimes like swimming without your limbs--you just sink. But when it works, you fly, and without instruments. Second City took flight on a December night in 1959, opening in a converted laundry on North Wells Street, not far from the present, more spacious theater. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Still Crazy After All These Years | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

It can be argued that there are at least 37,351 Dead Heads, because that many attended an outdoor concert at Saratoga, N.Y., last summer. But even 37,351 is a statistical flyspeck in the megahyped world of rock music. The fact is that in almost 20 years of playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: the Dead Live On | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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