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...Soon Byrd was doing Long's errands and collecting lous. After Ted Kennedy upset Long for the whip's seat, in 1969, Byrd performed the same tasks for the Massachusetts Senator, who had little enthusiasm for the housekeeping chores that the job requires. But in 1971, secure in his nest of hard-earned favors, Byrd turned around and knocked off the shocked Kennedy for the whip...
...LAST few years, popular culture has discovered a new theme. From looking again and again at the individual's struggle to destroy the establishment in books like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and movies like Wild in the Streets, writers and movie-makers have turned to looking at what happened to the idealists who thought in the '60s that there was really going to be a revolution in our lifetime. Books like Ann Beattie's Chilly Scenes of Winter or Medved and Wallechinsky's What Really Happened to the Class of '65 detail the survivor's attempts...
...imply that a collection of colored smears and slobberings and pieces of a pack-rat nest is art and its creator Robert Rauschenberg is an artist is akin to saying that what Jack the Ripper did was surgery and he was a surgeon...
Whenever he got a pass that gave him a few days off from the cuckoo's nest, Rauschenberg would simply head for the nearest highway and start thumbing rides to anywhere. On one of these time-killing trips, Rauschenberg heard about the cactus garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino. He went there ?and found that the library had paintings in it, the first "real" paintings he had ever seen: Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse and Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy. These suave, bright ghosts of Georgian culture stupefied Rauschenberg...
...plight of urban youth, lays a slice-of-life on you--pick one of the above and man your stations, please. Your assignments should be pretty clear: each critic prises a skein of dialogue from the script and analyzes its relevance from the vantage of the ideological crow's nest he has shimmied into...