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...ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BAD TASTE by Jane and Michael Stern (HarperCollins; $29.99). If it weren't for bad taste, most people wouldn't have any taste at all. That seems to be the thesis of this arch and witty catalog of American kitsch. A sampler: Nehru jackets, vanity license plates, bell-bottoms. The authors treat their subject with affection and condescension; in other words, they are tasteful about bad taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck The Halls with Sumptuous Volumes | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...Gift will roll around, and during the ceremony I'll say I have to go to the bathroom or something, and I'll run over to Rix or CVS and get Harvard something really cheap, but sensible, like a big bottle of aftershave or a Russel Stover's candy sampler...

Author: By Brian D. Reich, | Title: I Will Be Class Marshal | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...half-century ago in Venice in 1935. This summer its successor is on view in the Doges' Palace, and it will travel, in a much truncated form, to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, opening Oct. 28. The incompleteness of the Venice show, which is more a generous sampler than a true retrospective, and the even more fragmentary character it will have in Washington, testifies that the day of the big single-master show is closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Appetite for Human Character | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

EARTH DAY A GLOBAL FESTIVAL Not sure how to celebrate April 22? Here's a sampler of the worldwide whirl planned for the big day. The committed and the merely curious will be gathering at sites from Toulouse to Tokyo. There's something for everyone: a quiet read or a marathon rock concert, a bike ride or a mountain climb, some tree planting or trash sculpting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: EARTH DAY A GLOBAL FESTIVAL | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

CLOSER THAN EVER. This musical sampler from lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. and composer David Shire is an off-Broadway charmer deftly performed. Special joys: character songs that actors Brent Barrett and Sally Mayes render as richly nuanced as one-act plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 27, 1989 | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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