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This helped him get his TV show in 1956 -- he was the first major black entertainer to have a regular network program -- but didn't do a whole lot for him in the jazz community, which had been buffeted by bop and the restless experimentation of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. Cole began to look like a silken technician who'd sold his soul. One of the best things about this Mosaic set is that it helps to correct that impression and shows Cole for the artist he was. He wasn't corrupted by the mainstream. He used...
...real issue is family breakdown," says Benton Samana, a Buddhist monk. "Don't believe that snow job about the kids joining gangs to protect themselves." In Southeast Asia, parents take wayward children to monks for counseling. In providing that service here, Samana constantly encounters war- related emotional problems, such as withdrawn or hysterical parents suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. "Their children think they are wacky," he explains. "They don't want to be around them...
Glassman described himself as a "nonreclusive monk," adding that, "Zen contemplation is very active, like the center of a hurricane...
...sake. These sittings, a seduction on canvas, fill more than half of Jacques Rivette's four-hour La Belle Noiseuse. The phrase is loosely translated as "the beautiful nut case," but Frenhofer, not Marianne, is the genial lunatic: a man of the world who is a mad monk for his art. In his atelier the two act out a primal ritual of man appraising, adoring, subjugating and re-creating woman. This glamorous film, which won second prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and deserved even better, can be taken as a commentary on the creation of anybody...
...Bear's Place Inc.--at 10 Brookline St. in Cambridge. Call 492-0082. On Thursday: Scrawl, with Fish & Roses and Sob Story. On Friday: The Lemonheads, with Drumming on Glass and Paper Squares. On Saturday: Willie Loco, with Presence of Memory and The Monk. Wilson Band...