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...this end, he has enlisted the talents of a curious assortment of the old-and new-wave garde, including Performance Artist Laurie Anderson, 36, Composers John Cage, 71, and Philip Glass, 46, Choreographer Merce Cunningham, 64, Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, 57, Rock Singer Peter Gabriel, 33, and Cellist Charlotte Moorman, 44, once celebrated for her topless playing. Directed by Paik from the Pompidou Center in Paris and by George Plimpton, 56, acting as host at a studio in Manhattan, the one-hour live broadcast is described by Paik as a "celebration." Presumably, Big Brother will not be watching...
...would play a piano and then topple it over onstage; he would cut a pianist's shirttails to shreds with scissors, or stage a little musical "event" by dragging a violin along the sidewalk on a string, like a scraped and protesting pet. A cellist, Charlotte Moorman, would appear for Paik at a concert and play her instrument with tiny TV sets rigged over her breasts; or, to the scandal and amusement of the New York art world in 1967, she would perform topless...
...flung reaches of the avantgarde. Her first husband was a Japanese musician. The marriage so offended Ono's mother that she never reconciled with her daughter. She worked on concerts for John Cage, became associated with other artists such as La Monte Young and Charlotte Moorman, the topless cellist whose staging of and participation in art "events" came a little later to be called happenings. Ono married again, a conceptual artist named Tony Cox, and they had a daughter, Kyoko. Ono once brought the baby onstage during a concert as "an uncontrollable instrument." Eventually, Cox and Kyoko went...
...Harold Moorman, professor of Military Science at Dartmouth from 1954-1960 and now director of the college's career counseling unit, opposed the eviction of ROTC from the campus. He maintained that the program had benefits to offer individual students and the college. But Moorman, who retired from the Army in 1964, said yesterday that student interest in ROTC has waned and that "it certainly would be silly to teach a course that no one wants to take...
...Festival, held this fall on a boat moored at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, was a fair example of the problem: a confusion of irresolute trivia, ranging from a cabin full of autumn leaves (which, at least, the kids enjoyed throwing around), through numerous video pieces, to Charlotte Moorman-who enjoys a fame of sorts as the world's only topless cellist-playing her instrument under water. It was all so affably amateurish, like a transistorized rummage sale, that one gave up expectation...