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...meaningless abundance on which Warhol's work is based has created its own landscape, as surely as Cezanne's brush "created" the expectations with which one might drive to Mont Sainte-Victoire. But the America of mass consumption has not been changed; only signed, and in invisible ink...
...elaborations of cool, Warhol has an apocalyptic side, a vision of interminable, inconclusive and somehow masturbatory disaster to which he adds no comment beyond ornamenting it, running the electric chair through its exotic variations of turquoise, yellow, crimson and green, printing the car crash over and over until the ink grays out like a film flapping off the reel. At such moments, Warhol's objectivity assumes the character of defeat...
...only four national newspapers in Britain today," he says. "It doesn't make sense to have more." Time seems certain to prove him right, and clearly His Lordship hopes the Times will be among the survivors. But unless he can steer it out of the sea of red ink soon, the flagship of Fleet Street just may not make...
...thrillers. "Over here... Name?... Occupation?... How do you spell seminarian?... Never mind... s-t-u-d-e-n-t..." And Fingerprints. They get about twenty-five of those-that is, if the man doesn't smudge any. We didn't sign much. Somebody just put each of our ink-covered right thumbs on the bottom right-hand corner of everything. Then the mug shots-J. Edgar needs to keep up-to-date photos...
Mike Royko's Boss isn't such a waste of ink. It is something of a hatchet job, but it explains something that few of the editorial writers bothered to touch upon, namely, that in the process of building downtown, Daley has ignored the neighborhoods. Royko, who is a Chicago Daily News columnist, attacks the old forms of corruption: the election fraud, the kickbacks, the small rackets. Indeed, he describes many cases of old-fashioned corruption in the matter-of-fact way which is his strength as a reporter...