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THERE'S A SPECIAL sort of frustration in having high expectations disappointed. It's the combination of anger and disappointment that strikes you when you go to a show wanting ever so much to like it and leave realizing that it just wasn't good enough...
Butcher last month got the Carter Administration to endorse a $12.5 million federal grant for Energy Expo, a sort of world's fair planned for 1982 in Knoxville. Carter announced approval of the plan even before Commerce Department officials had cleared their share of the grants. "That's why I'm going to make a good Governor," Butcher said last week. "I'm going to have this same kind of influence over the President when I'm Governor...
Hermann has other problems, as he explains to a weighty fellow whom he takes to be a psychiatrist but who is in fact an insurance agent. He is troubled by an odd sort of sexual dislocation: when he is making love to his wife (a porky and bubbleheaded blonde played delightfully by Andréa Ferréol), he also seems to be sitting in a chair and watching the heavings. Worse, as the illness progresses, the chair he watches, from recedes farther and farther from the action...
...hindsight, death appeared to be the central image of Rothko's late, dark, claustrophobic canvases. Indeed, his suicide gave his art a simplified legibility that it did not really have? the operatic wholeness of art and life that a myth-hungry audience expects of peintres maudits. In a grisly sort of way, Rothko's suicide has been taken by the art market as a proof of sincerity and translated into cash value. His paintings easily doubled in price within a year of his death. A long, bitter and sensational court battle ensued, during which Rothko's children successfully fought...
Unfortunately, these 63 polished works tend to turn self-mockery up to full volume: "Present it in a pitiful light. Three combat-scarred veterans, who fought their way from Omaha Beach to- what was the name of the town we fought our way to?" Or: "What sort of poetry do you write?" "Lyric, elegiac, and athletic In praise of youth, death, and anarchy. Very good for tearing...