Word: soho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Laughter is more appropriate -- the laughter of recognition, not of condescension. Byrne has the joy of a SoHo sophisticate discovering that there are other beguiling life-forms out there, and True Stories communicates that pleasure as ripely as any film made by New Yorkers in Texas since Bonnie and Clyde. A lip-sync contest, to the Talking Heads' bar-brawl rave-up Wild Wild Life, is awhirl with amateur energy. For 15 seconds or so each, a dozen locals -- Louis the Country Bachelor (John Goodman), his pal Ramon (Tito Larriva) and even Byrne in a gigolo's mustache, but also...
...elemental, manic drive, David Byrne is not alone. In fact, Byrne is only the most visible member of a movement that has recently vacated its artist-loft digs in lower Manhattan and joyfully taken up residence right next door to the American mainstream. Call it a celebration of specialness: SoHo has come uptown...
...chauffeur, it seems a living hell. How can she endure these rough hands and tawdry nightdreams? How can she not respond to his courtly Cockney love? Simone does respond, in the only way she knows, by using him. She sends her squire out to play knight, searching the Soho underworld for the girl who will fulfill Simone's fantasies and pry open George's blinkered eyes...
Some of the most politically active Baby Boomers are true-believer conservatives. "When I went to college, all my professors were insipid liberals," says John Buckley, 29, who went from being a rock critic for the Soho News in Manhattan to conservative Congressman Jack Kemp's press secretary. "The only way to inject any energy was to rebel from the right." Says Peggy Noonan, 35, who voted for George McGovern in 1972 but now writes speeches for President Reagan: "We are idealists without illusions." Of course, many more Baby Boomers--indeed, the large and silent majority--show little...
...Twombly. Its drawing was casual, but intelligently so. It used botany obscurely, for some ulterior end--but what? And did it look better than it was for being surrounded by trash? To test that, one had to wait for a full show. That exhibit is now on view, at SoHo's Sonnabend Gallery, through February. And it confirms the feeling that Winters, in a New York City art scene depleted and numbed by the hangover from the early '80s, is one of the truly serious artists of his generation...