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...high seriousness imposed by the hardcore New York art world. His reputation would look after itself; he would not tend it. Besides, Rauschenberg was a natural dissipater. The sight of him in his porcupine-quill leather jacket, erect but slightly, marinated with Jack Daniel's, cackling like a Texan loon and trying to get his arm around everyone at once, was too familiar...
...debate the mythic purity of modern art, to see how it really has worked in society and not just how it hoped to work. Ten years ago, anyone who argued that the Bauhaus tradition of functionalist design might suit the totalitarian spirit would have been dismissed as a loon. The main architecture show in Venice this year, a fascinating assembly called "Rationalism and Architecture in Italy During the Fascist Regime," irrefutably demonstrates how it could and did. Likewise, we suppose that the "advanced" movements in Spanish art during the past 40 years must have threatened Franco's commissars...
BACKING UP the cast, the orchestra does a yeoman-like job of performing Sullivan's score. Aside from Point and Elsie's ballad, the best numbers in the show include Point's cynical patter song ("Oh a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon"), "Were I thy bride," during which Phoebe dallies with Wilfred while her father steals his keys, and "A man who would woo a fair maid," Fairfax's own testament to his success as a lover...
...LOON MT.: A nice family area, with a variety of skiing. Although Loon is known primarily as an intermediate area, it has a few challenging trails. In short, Loon is a great mountain for the easy-going recreational skier. The four-man gondola also makes it easy to ski with friends. It offers a weekday discount or students with I.D. 132 miles from Boston...
...Loon and Pressman have been working with the NAACP in Boston desegregation cases for three years as part of a program at the Harvard Law Center...