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...Lucas Samaras, and the recent showing of Christopher Wilmarth's "Breath," a collection of blown glass, steel sculpture and works on paper, created in response to seven poems by Stephane Mallarme. The upcoming "Boston Now" show will feature painting, photography and sculpture, as well as works in the newer media...
...gang uniforms. A lot of the aggressive energy that once went into street fighting now goes into competitive dancing, like "breaking," an elaborate and athletic choreography of splits, handstands, spins, acrobatic turns and assorted outrageous maneuvers. Breaking has already attracted mainstream attention, but uptown it is being overtaken by newer dances, like the Webboe and the Smurf, in which the dancers move with the goofy, ironic precision of the Saturday-morning TV cartoon trolls...
...newer poems tend to telescope people, events, places and hint at the inner life in them until the end of the poem, when the joy in only tangible things is destroyed and replaced with a vision of one enduring idea whether it be blood, love, or the continuousness of change...
...first thought, the idea of preserving New York City's 31-year-old Lever House as a historic landmark seems absurd. To some observers, the 24-story, blue-green glass slab seems shabby and unimpressive in the ice canyon of Park Avenue's taller and newer glass slabs. Yet last November the city's unsentimental landmarks preservation commission said that Lever House was worth saving. It pronounced the building in effect as important a memento of America's history as, say, the gilded facade of Grand Central Terminal, about ten blocks down the avenue. Now Fisher...
Because of its newer emphasis on purely political issues, McManus can not understand why the public still associates the Society with book burning. "We've been victimized by book burning," he explains. "I suppose some books deserved to be burned, but it's not our business to go about burning them. It hasn't been done in any organized fashion. It's not a program of ours. Our program is for a better world...