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There is quite a lot of "narrative" art, disconnected accumulations of words and images that owe something to Jasper Johns, something to James Rosenquist. The most conspicuous new practitioner is a Texan named Vernon Fisher, 37, the only artist represented in all three shows. But political content hardly appears at all. The sole artist concerned with it is an Englishman, Conrad Atkinson (Hirsh-horn), who makes ferocious indictments-by-assemblage over such issues as Northern Ireland and asbestos poisoning of workers. His accumulations of data-letters, text panels, photos of graffiti and so on-undergo very little aesthetic transformation...
Koocher said last week the school committee "does not owe" Lesley College an apology. Wiley waited five hours at the meeting because no one knew who he was, Koocher said, adding that the committee would have "expedited" the matter if he had known a Lesley representative was present...
...Many of these nations are asking for massive transfers of goods and services and seemingly want to readjust the north-south economic imbalance overnight. They also need to face up to the problem of paying off the debt they already owe the West; the more than $400 billion borrowed by LDCs in the past decade, if defaulted, would threaten the very institutions that can provide the funds for further development...
...four plots don't make us feel any better. They just help us begin to appreciate the gratitude we owe the folks at ABC--the pacesetters in the cutesy trash industry. Sunday Lovers' separate scenarios--each written and directed by a different person--so completely rely on television and porno flicks that we are not surprised when the producers fall back on cliched trick endings to escape from beneath the mountain of one-liners they have created. Instead of thinking, "My, wasn't that a hair-brained half-hour, completely devoid of artistic merit," we are supposed...
...honor our commitments and pay what we owe. Let us take 444 days to doit...