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...inspired the kids by reading an adult poem--including D.H. Lawrence, Theodore Roethke, John Ashberry, and Dyland Thomas--but as his collection of kids' poems increased he would read in one class poems written in another. He noticed that P.S.61 was establishing its own literary tradition--an institutional salon of sorts. Thus a misspelled word triggered Koch's introduction to a metaphor. A child wrote "A swam of bees," instead of a "swarm." A first grader's poem: "I used to be a fish/But now I am a nurse," inspired a whole series of poems describing physical transformation like this...
Unpermanents first appeared a few seasons ago, but have just begun to catch on. Stylists at Superhair, a Manhattan salon, now do about 18 a day compared with five a week last year. At Chicago's Mark Benaim salon, requests for the new hairdo have doubled...
...this admittedly primitive standard, Little House on the Prairie (NBC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) seems the best of a highly domesticated breed. It is true that Star-Producer Michael Landon looks as if he just stepped out of a unisex beauty salon on the Strip rather than 430 episodes of Bonanza. His unwillingness to express anything but for bearance as he struggles to wrest a living from his farm also strains credulity. On the other hand, his problems often lead the Ingalls family into livelier action sequences than competing shows offer. Best of all, the show eschews the nostalgic...
...sound quality. In making the transfers from the original recordings, careful attention was paid to correct pitch, a task necessary because the speed of the old 78s varied among individual records. The collection, covering the years from 1906 to 1920, consists mainly of Italian and French opera and salon music, with half a dozen parlor songs sung approximately in English. "Vecchia zimarra, senti" the bass "Coat Song" from La Boheme, and "Magische Note," an aria from Goldmark's Queen of Sheba that contains a rare recorded example of Caruso's using falsetto, are the most unusual items...
Perhaps no living painter has ever been thrust into such notoriety by a novel as Moreau was by the publication of J.K. Huysmans' manifesto of decadence, A Rebours, in 1884. Moreau was then 58, a Parisian born and bred, praised in the salon, an officer of the Legion of Honor, a mature and respected figure with a strong academic bias. The fictional hero of A Rebours, that absurd purple monster des Esseintes, was described as owning two of his paintings. One was the elaborate Salome Dancing Before Herod, 1876 (see color page...