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...from issues of university-wide relevance that post-World War II board members effected. "The Advocate editors were becoming a literary clique, the magazine their house organ. They showed little interest in student affairs," he writes. During the 60s and 70s, the emphasis shifted towards more artwork and a slicker presentation. James Atlas '72, an ex-Advocate president and a current editor of the Atlantic, remembers trying to improve circulation by putting a young woman with bare breasts and a whip on the cover. "It didn't work," he notes wistfully...
...show has grown slicker, Director Eytchison points out, "we've done Matisse and Picasso. Still, after you've tried it, you have to ask yourself what the point of the whole pageant is. After all,, pur purpose is to provide an enjoyable evening of theater." While many works of art meet Laguna's requirements in terms of style and content, they prove technically impossible to reproduce. For example, Eytchison has found that Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings have too much distance between figures in foreground and background for realistic reproduction: "In order to do a cancan scene...
...Charney, who appears to be hankering after a more general readership-or, perhaps, viewership. For a yearly subscription fee of $1,500, clients-mostly retailers and cosmetic companies-get the lowdown on Halston and hear all about hair care. Charney is negotiating with CBS Cable to carry an even slicker, consumer-oriented spinoff. "When we started," Charney says, "there wasn't even Betamax. There weren't any satellites. Now everything is coming together. Video is the place where TV, newspapers and books and photography and movies really meet." Charney's vid mag, the zippiest of the small...
...painting and sculpture. Yet there they all are: the early Bernard Buffets, gray, spiky still lifes, mournful and oppressively style-ridden; the even earlier works of a virtually forgotten artist, Francis Gruber, whose ravaged landscapes and etiolated figures à la Jacques Callot seem to have given the much slicker Buffet most of his ideas. In sculpture there were the post-Hiroshima-style images, all spikes and burnt dribbles of welded iron, by people like Germaine Richier...
...chief New York Times drama critic), Halberstam, J. Anthony Lukas '55 (Times Pulitzer prize-winner), Mike Kinsley '72 (The New Republic), James Fallows '69 (The Atlantic Monthly) and numerous others, it is interesting to see what they wrote before "maturing" into the realm of slick publications and even slicker editors, when they wrote purely because they felt a need to, without contracts and glossy ads and people to feed...