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But it was the Revolution that focused the energies of Soviet art. The outsiders now became insiders; their opposition to the old order and its tastes was crystallized on a political level that, as artists, they could enthusiastically serve. But they were not content to be dandies like Marinetti. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Futurism's Farthest Frontier | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

OTHER, better, newspapers don't really provide happy mediums between hustle and heart attacks, either, though. At the Washington Post, news reporters--especially on cityside--constantly battle in a cutthroat competition to get their stories on the front page, and consequently tend to go for the quickie scandal rather than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guns And Butter | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

The two exhibits will obviously impress different groups of people. And it is perhaps not entirely fair to compare two such different mediums from two such dissimilar cultures. Nevertheless it is interesting to consider the means by which an Eskimo and a Russian who emigrated to Paris in 1910 both...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Carnival Beside the Arctic Ocean | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

The authors examine Pike's many efforts to talk with the dead (notably Jim Jr.) in seances, and suggest that the mediums he used probably learned in advance almost all of the obscure information that so impressed the bishop. They also note that since he and Diane agreed on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nothing Hidden | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

The fairy tale allied itself with other types of mass culture that saved it from cuteness and trite morality throughout the Victorian era. It never joined forces with another persistent and repressed literary genre, pornography--which this book terms "the ultimate cultural ghetto"--but it did identify with "vulgar" elements...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Silent Moving Ones | 5/21/1974 | See Source »

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