Word: soho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French Riviera was a lengthy apprenticeship. At St. Joseph's College, Corliss helped edit the school newspaper. After studying film history at Columbia University and at New York University, he worked as a film critic for publications as disparate as the National Review, New Times and the now defunct Soho News before joining TIME in 1980. In addition to his reviewer's duties, Corliss co-edits a bimonthly journal called Film Comment (circ. 48,000), scouts films for the New York Film Festival's program committee and is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, an association...
...electronic banking transaction, I'll head into Harvard Square, a place which, like a piece of pop kinesthetic art, suggests vigor without actually exerting any. The eternal question here seems to be: if Cambridge is such a progressive city, how come half its population keeps alive by collecting the Soho All-Natural Ginger Ale bottles that the other half throws away...
...work around his schedule at TIME, Associate Editor J.D. Reed and his wife Christine divided chores on Exposure (Soho Press), a murder mystery set in the world of soccer. Christine wrote, while her husband edited and supplied sports expertise. Says he: "I also provided lots of pats on the back, and coffee...
However, this book is more than just an intro to the coldwater SoHo loft that is Frank Stella's mind. Stella has assigned himself the second task of uncovering the origin of the "crisis of abstraction," the growing consensus even among practitioners that contemporary abstract art bores the hell out of people. Stella attributes this yawning chasm between potential and performance to the flat, two-dimensional quality of the abstraction of the 1970s and '80s, heir to the tradition of highly colored "decorative" paintings exemplified by Delacroix and Malevich...
...Modern Choreographer Merce Cunningham have worked together frequently. Nor is it unheard-of for a rock musician to hang out with the classical avant-garde: Frank Zappa, formerly of the Mothers of Invention, has had his serious chamber works conducted by no less than Pierre Boulez. What distinguishes the SoHo artists is the familiar ease with which their works play off one another...