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...hype and expectations fell stunningly short of what actually happened when the bidding finally began last Tuesday night. Ticket holders who had braved a gauntlet of security guards, bag searches, metal detectors and TV reporters to reach the auction room quickly realized they had boarded an elevator going nowhere...
...sink--no, make that the whole kitchen. Some of the catalog entries for this show, listing title, date and materials, sound more like small towns than works of art: "The Ozymandias Parade, 1985. Tableau: wood, plastic, mirrored plexiglass, fiberglass horses, light bulbs, recorded music, paint, clothing, plaster casts, rubber, metal, galvanized sheet metal, polyester resin, wagon, pork barrel, suitcases, fake money, telephone, miniature flags, and toys, 147 x 349 x 180 [inches...
Indeed, Leary's recent guest list is both eclectic and electric: Yoko Ono, goddaughter Winona Ryder, former Mama Michelle Phillips, dolphin researcher John Lilly, onetime Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro, the widow of Aldous Huxley, the members of the industrial-metal group Ministry, and Ram Dass, who used to be Leary's old Harvard bud Richard Alpert. Oh, yes, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins just dropped by and dropped off a tape of Dead Man Walking. "It's a little hectic up here," says Leary's personal assistant, a young woman with magenta-streaked hair, Technicolorfully tattooed legs...
...Another reason to get the lead out: a study shows that high residues of the heavy metal in bones may be a significant cause of HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, even more so than dietary salt or aging...
DIED. LARRY LAPRISE, 83, songwriter; in Boise, Idaho. LaPrise was playing ski lodges when he co-concocted the ideal entertainment for hyperactive children and rhythm-impaired adults: The Hokey Pokey (1949), which had a nation putting various extremities in, out and about. Big-band and heavy-metal versions followed--as LaPrise was hokey-pokeyed out of a fortune. Having sold his rights for a song, he became a postal worker...