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...anthropological fascination Ruesch adds sardonic bite by contrasting The Men with white men. Every Eskimo knows that whites are comic. A favorite Inuit joke involves Admiral Peary's trek to the North Pole: What did he find there? Punch line: "Nothing, absolutely nothing!" Hilarious...
...futile effort that searches for them. Ambiguity is all you will get out of this art scene. The artist is marketing wiseguyness (Warhol makes a six-hour movie of a man sleeping and distributes it as fast as his factories can manufacture it; Lichtenstein can't get off his punch line. "It seemed impossible to print something somebody wouldn't hang. Everybody was hanging everything"). The critic lacks an objective basis of taste; the artist refuses form, having already abandoned content; you get lost in the Whitney funhouse...
Newport-New England. Now the Newport Jazz Festival used to be held at Newport. But three-four years ago, after George Wein started inporting people like Led Zeppelin to punch up the gate, they had a riot. Nice one, too. About 7,000 stone broke hippies came rolling off the hill overlooking the festival site and rolled clean through the one chain link fence separating themselves from wall to wall music. At which point they clashed with the paying customers and much mangling of flesh ensued. So now they hold the festival in places like the Sheep Meadow and Fenway...
...Bach that inspired it. In "Anne Boleyn," Wakeman starts out with the courtly use of an old English hymn, then progresses to a violently free-for-all jazz v. rock v. classics jamboree. In these and the other four movements, Wakeman writes in a manner that has the punch and power of rock combined with the taste and cohesion of traditional symphonic fare...
...system is somewhat complicated. Using his home or office phone, the customer must first punch a seven-digit number to get access to the computer, then enter his personal identification number, then another code number for the bill-payment service, then a fourth code number for the company to receive the payment, then a fifth number to indicate the amount of the transaction (all numbers are kept secret between the bank and the telephone users). A computer-simulated "voice" confirms each step of the transaction over the phone, so that a customer runs no great risk of paying somebody else...