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What a Life! is the second album from the Australian band Divinyls. Their music is claimed to form a synthesis of punk and pop. Singer Christina Amphlett manages to prove marginally successful in this endeavor, though the sound is generally much closer to pop than to punk.
As the new futurist sensibility took hold, mainstream designers showed some transitional ambivalence: a goofy "electric candle" (1929) on view at the Whitney is unsure if it is supposed to look like a rocket or an actual candle or a tiny fluted Doric column. But the black-paneled Atwater Kent...
The CLS approach brings up two problems. First, fighting for someone's rights while fighting the system of rights is paradoxical. Not all CLS people share the same radical social vision of a society with anarchy built into it, of a state with revolution built into it, but this idea...
The real comedy is supposed to occur when Maxie and Jan struggle for use of the body. When Close is boring and dull, we know that Jan is in control; when she is loud and obnoxious and talks like an odd synthesis of Mae West and Betty Boop, we know...
In the work of Robert Longo, 32, painting resolves itself as large-scale montage, like film itself -- a chilly, imposing screen of images. Works like National Trust, 1981, fluctuate between the catastrophically private (contorted figures that might come from a disco, or might just have been felled by thrombosis or...