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...those of anarchy. The group's 185 pieces of seating, storage, fabrics, rugs and accessories, produced over the past three years, loudly refute the tubular chrome-and-black-leather commandments of accepted modern style. Their form follows fantasy, and they owe more to the media messages of Marshall McLuhan than to the Bauhaus minimalism of Architect Mies van der Rohe. Memphis' latest whimsical collection of 66 pieces went partially on view earlier this month at the trendy Grace Designs showroom in Dallas, the Janus Gallery in Los Angeles and the Limn in San Francisco, and will soon open...
...Thicke is a performer who can do everything, kind of. On his new show he sings and plays the guitar like a grownup Rick Springfield. As a conversationalist he can be gently witty, without Letterman's sting or Carson's quickness. "I'm cool in the McLuhan sense," he says. Describing himself as an Everyman, he is uncomfortable with the label of comic: "I'd rather be the genial host at the party...
...during an eleven-month period in 1975 and 1976, when Cronkite competed with Chancellor at NBC and Harry Reasoner at ABC. The change would be most dramatic for ABC, which invented the multianchor "whiparound" because it lacked a single, forceful personality. Almost accidentally, ABC created a version of Marshall McLuhan's "global village," with newscasters focusing on diverse stories as they viewed the world from different places. Arledge's decentralized vision was taken up, in part, by CBS News under Sauter, who downplayed Washington and Government in favor of more geographically varied news. In Mudd's view...
Typewriters in Art. Claes Oldenburg's Soft Typewriter. Also, Leroy Anderson's musical number The Typewriter, remembered for its effective use of the bell. Marshall McLuhan surmised that the typewriter has contributed to the writing of free-verse poetry, because the righthand margins are uneven. This is fascinating, but unlikely. Yet e.e. cummings' poems could have been composed on nothing but a typewriter, and many novelists have used the lower case and run-on words to convey streams of consciousness. Don Marquis' archys life of mehitabel made a poet of a cockroach who was unable...
This incident, says Professor Seymour Feshbach, chairman of the psychology department at U.C.L.A., occurred at a Los Angeles nursery school. Margaret Mead might have described the scene as a tribal rite of the global village; Marshall McLuhan might cite it as proof that the medium is indeed the message. But to Professor Feshbach as well as to Joan Anderson Wilkins, a researcher on family issues, it was not a symbol but an illustration of something more portentous: television addiction. Those nursery-school students are video junkies...