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Giardi also led the team in carries with 18 (for 39 yards). But that number is abnormally high: Because he is under pressure so much, designed pass plays all too frequently turn into helter-skelter scrambles for survival...
...SUCH A TITLE are apparent," the catalog of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art prissily begins, " -- that the grisly and gruesome Charles Manson murders would be glorified, that the show would seem to be about the sixties . . ." Aw, c'mon, just because we call an exhibition "Helter Skelter," you wouldn't necessarily think better of Charlie aging away there in maximum security, would you? A pity the curator in question, Paul Schimmel, won't come out with it: We want a lurid title but, hey, we're a museum. Maybe we need a bit of sensationalism to, as they...
SHOW: HELTER SKELTER: L.A. ART IN THE 1990S...
...BOTTOM LINE: Helter Skelter? The title says it all. You thought the art of the 1980s was bad? This is worse...
...Really bad art is probably invulnerable to criticism, and so it is with this slumgullion. If you thought new American art couldn't get much worse than it was by the end of the 1980s, visit MOCA and learn. It isn't Charles Manson you think of in "Helter Skelter" but John Milton on the topography of the netherworld: "And in the lowest depths, a lower depth." The thesis of the show is that just below the sunny promotional surface of Los Angeles there is a stratum of alienation, murder, bad dreams and apocalyptic fantasies that reflect themselves inexorably...