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...next week Sue Musser of Selkirk's market will be eagerly serving customers for the first time. She predicts that her pie sales will double to 1,200, thanks to pastry reform. (Whole-pie sales were always allowed, but really, who wants to lug around a 10-in. tin while you're strolling around a festival?) And how about the industry leader? Suzi Anderton, Sara Lee's liaison for the festival, claims not to be nervous. "Competition is great. May the best...
...Marconi had worked out the essentials of radio. The phonograph was fast evolving into the basis for a recording industry. By 1912, 5 million Americans a day were attending a new entertainment called movies. New Orleans echoed with the sounds that were jumbling together gloriously as jazz. Denizens of Tin Pan Alley were polishing the wit and jaunty lyricism of the pop song and revamping European operetta into an original American theater form: the musical...
...modern sculpture is bound up with welding and assembling images from sheet metal, rather than modeling in clay, casting in bronze or carving in wood; and this tradition of the open constructed form rather than solid mass arose from one small guitar that Picasso snipped and joined out of tin in 1912. If collage--the gluing of previously unrelated things and images on a flat surface--became a basic mode of modern art, that too was due to Picasso's Cubist collaboration with Braque. He was never a member of the Surrealist group, but in the 1920s...
...final statement on pre-rock pop," as Will Friedwald, the invaluable Sinatra scholar, recently wrote of the Songs for Swingin' Lovers! album, released in 1956 and generally considered Sinatra's finest LP. "Something radically different just had to come next," Friedwald continues, "because nothing in the realm of Tin Pan Alley could top this bravura celebration of grown-up love." You can't sum up Sinatra's achievement more succinctly than that...
Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigations go on and on [NATION, May 11]. There are few things more frightening than a self-righteous, self-important "guardian" of public morals and minds like Starr, a tin-pot Torquemada and spiritual heir to Himmler. JENNIFER JOHNSTON SMITH Houston...