Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Touch Not the Cat, Stewart...
...show's weakness is its monotony. Director Hoving, who was obliged to step in as his own guest curator when the Met's curator of 20th century art, Henry Geldzahler, refused to touch the show, has given Wyeth the kind of treatment that only major draftsmen merit. Each painting is surrounded by a flock of its studies and sketches that reveal the working method, the small adjustments, tunings and abstractions that come between the first view and the final painting. If Wyeth were Rubens the spectacle would be fascinating. But since he seems to work upward from illustration...
...charged that the four hit his head twice with a hammer. Lewis said yesterday, "We didn't touch him. I just got out of there...
...sound of your room-mate's typewriter and listen again. John Klemmer's jazz sounds even better the second time around. Like George Harrison's song, "Way back in time someone said try some, I tried some. Now buy some. I bought some..." And his 1975 album, Touch, is well on the way to gold status now so I can't be the only...
...Touch was more than the fusing of various musical impulses into an easy-to-listen-to commercial package. Klemmer's exploration of what he calls "the sensual flow of sound" is original. He began as a rock jack-of-all-trades and moved gradually towards combining rock and jazz, convinced that "Jazz has to be re-established as a popular music... because of its emotional and intellectual depth." His sound is unique. It doesn't pretend to imitate the "greats." Instead it draws from sources from rock to classical, from jazz to pop, and the finished product is rich, carefully...