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...bill with the Ramones are the David Johansen Group and Willy Alexander and the Neighborhoods, a group whose name involves some very faulty grammar. Or maybe Willy doesn't know that neighborhoods, per se, can neither be in a band nor sing. The lead guitarist's name is David Minimum, a very good guy, and the evening promises lots of insults and negative imagery...
...coming all the way to Leverett House to give me free tickets to their show (which, by the way, is at the Paradise on Oct. 26). They're called Private Lightening. I don't get it, but go see them anyway. Also coming to the Paradise are the David Johansen Group on Oct. 27, Blondie on Nov. 3-4, and Dr. John on Nov. 6. It looks like Nick Lowe and Rockpile cancelled out, and boy am I bummed...
...audience in rock dotes on the finery of such brocade, sequin, mascara-and rouge-wearing performers as Todd Rundgren, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper and the New York Dolls. Occasionally a glitter singer like England's bisexual David Bowie is actually good. Mostly, though, admits the Dolls' David Johansen, "the whole glitter trip is just jive." A concert can also be simply an excuse for youngsters to come out for a reasonably harmless masquerade party. The kids go on parade to show off their white tuxedos and top hats, feather boas, and of course glitter, lavishly applied to face...
Meantime Walter Gropius had moved to the U.S. to head Harvard University's design school. In 1937 he asked Breuer to teach and practice with him in Cambridge, Mass. He was adored by his students, fine architects including I.M. Pei, John Johansen, Paul Rudolph, Ulrich Franzen. "Gropius was the establishment figure, stern and rational," recalls Franzen. "Breuer was the artist. He opened our minds to everything." Adds Johansen: "He was always accessible. We had lots of parties at his place. But in class, he goaded us. 'Why not do it?' he asked in his Hungarian accent...
Brash and Incisive. At first sight, it does not look like a theater at all. Johansen designed it in terms of distinct units-blocks of raw concrete with brightly painted steel cladding, connected by tubes and catwalks. Nothing could be more remote from the idiom of the theater as temple-massive portico and formidable foyer suggesting, in the manner of Lincoln Center, that the audience is going to be vouchsafed a peek at the altar of some crushing god named High Culture. The Mummers Theater, by contrast, with its simple materials and modest scale, does not try to stimulate...