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Thank you for confirming what we've long suspected about The New Yorker [Jan. 12]. The occasional chuckle or pleasure experienced in coming upon an engrossing piece does not compensate any longer for the exasperation generated by plowing through all those slick, expensive pages of prolix maunderings. It's very sad, somewhat like losing a bright, witty and interesting companion to stroke and senility...
...hubby getting frisky to the beat of Muzak disco, no more jokes about Explodo-Gum, the treat that causes green saliva to ooze from the mouths of sweet-toothed kids. Instead, the filmmakers concentrate on a hackneyed sub-plot about the Organization for World Management, a sinister group of slick, young corporate types who plot to control the world by shrinking the masses. They kidnap poor Pat to run experiments on her, but, with the help of a gorilla (yes, another smart movie gorilla), she tries to escape and tell all of the terrible conspiracy. What happened to the clever...
Pieces like Nevelson's Celebration, a 30-ft.-high steel construction done for the PepsiCo headquarters at Purchase, N.Y., in 1976, or the 54-ft. Sky Tree, 1977, in San Francisco's Embarcadero Center, have an ornamental blandness that verges on the slick-the last word that could imaginably apply to her wooden walls and environments. One is left with the impression not of sculpture that confidently occupies its own scale but of inflated maquettes. Night Presence IV, 1972, which Nevelson offered as a personal gift to New York City-it stands at Park Avenue and 92nd Street...
Trying to curb prices, governments hit a new oil slick...
Lansford, a slick-fielding third baseman, hit .264 in 86 games with California during 1980. A three-year veteran, he is 23-years old and hit for averages of .294 and .287 his first two seasons with the Angels...