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...reason for the artistic explosion may be the recently opened stage between Out of Town News and Mug 'n' Muffin restaurant. Created by the new MBTA stop, the tiny macadam plaza gives performers another place to ply their trade in addition to the Brattle Square Island. Kalomymus, a bearded young man who presents his own version of the flaming batons routine, says another reason he and his cohorts have had more success recently is that the Cambridge police have refrained from breaking up larger audiences. "One cop did tell me the other night that he'd stick the torches...
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...hard to recognize him without his custom-made porkpie hat and Dick Tracy suits, but that almost affable-looking skipper is former Tough Guy Mickey Spillane. Though he still has a mug that would halt traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike, it may be that the gravel-voiced master of hard-boiled detective fiction has finally gone soft. Spillane, 63, has taken to writing children's books. His first, The Day the Sea Rolled Back (Bantam, $1.75), is about two boys on a search for buried treasure. They run into a couple of villains who might have felt...
Scrum-half Keith Oberg feels that Sauve's tournament ritual is equally important. Before Easterns, Sauve had his size-52 jacket stolen from a bar; that Sunday the team won jackets. His favorite mug broke before the Ivy League Championships; a few days later he had an engraved replacement. This week, he is asking readers to tear or steal his jersey so he can put on a gold Collegiate Championship shirt this Sunday...
...sense, portraits of Beautiful People. Every wrinkle, bulge and sag in their flesh is colossally magnified: a face 9 ft. high is no longer a face but a wall of imperfections that mock the convention of "good looks." The face is always seen head on, like a mug shot or a passport photo; yet it is blown up to the size of some staring mosaic Pantocrator on a Byzantine a pse. These are, of course, the portraits by Chuck Close-familiar items in the art of the 1970s-now gathered in a retrospective of Close's work, which, after...