Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friday, three British poets, Patricia Beer, Adrian Henri and Pete Morgan, will give a reading in the Eliot House Library at 8 p.m., with free sherry and no admission charge. Saturday, Suzanne Hiatt will give a lecture at the Harvard Epworth Church on "Witchcraft and Misogyny,"--an odd topic to be speaking on in a church, perhaps, but de gustubus. 5:30 p.m.,!/ FOR SUPPER. Watch what...
...Calder, the most internationally celebrated of all living American sculptors, one's hopes rise. Make way for the cosmic perspective! In fact, as the Whitney Museum's new retrospective of the work of this venerable figure testifies, his achievement is more modest and realistic. In the 200-odd works that make up "Calder's Universe," as the show is called, there is little of the real universe, but a pervasive flavor of its metaphors: orreries, planetary clockwork, automata. The Copernican epicycles turn out to be circus rings, and the vast music of the spheres comes down...
Rough Edges. This odd, disjointed Down Under western tries to duplicate the rough edges of a folk ballad, placing Morgan's exploits in a context that is both romantic and social. Much time is expended depicting the primitive qualities of colonial justice, while government authorities are depicted, predictably, as brutal lunatics. Superintendent Cobham of the Victorian police (played with flush, fruity menace by Frank Thring) supervises Morgan's eventual capture and execution, then ships his head to an anatomy professor in Melbourne. The professor has a curious theory-he thinks Morgan could be half ape. The superintendent keeps...
Most of the time, Joan Foster is the quietly unremarkable wife of a humorless student radical. In odd stolen hours, she plays mistress to an avant-garde artist who serves as a kind of latter-day Mad Hatter. From both husband and lover, Joan cleverly hides two secret shames: the fact that she produces feverishly romantic gothic novels and her pre-diet-pill memories of a miserably obese childhood. Both are telltale signs of a temperament too florid to suit the doctrinaire, modernist tastes of the men now in her life. One day, seized by a fit of automatic writing...
...Yorker Journalist Renata Adler's special purview has often been the odd schizophrenia induced in those Americans who came of age (as she did) in the 1950s-a generation that was too young to cheer the System and too old to blow it up. The seven stories in Speedboat, though cast as fiction, really form an extended reporter's notebook on the same story: the many ways that agreeable, hypereducated people find to go slowly bonkers...