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Wolfe notes not only the rise of the in-vite-a-Panther-to-cocktails phase of Radical Chic, but what is probably its fall. The party at Lenny's was followed by a scathing editorial in the New York Times. Slander would be preferable to Wolfe's compassion for the traumatized Bernsteins. "It was unbelievable," he writes of Lenny's reaction to the post-party furor. "Cultivated people, intellectuals, were characterizing him as 'a masochist' and-and this was the really cruel part-as 'the David Susskind of American Music...
Diabolical Ping. This fondness for movable sculpture qualified De Maria as a progenitor of the busy school of "Optional art," whose practitioners in vite viewers to play a sort of game by rearranging various objects in a composition to suit their own tastes. Avant-garde collectors began to buy De Ma ria's work. He was soon able to have them made up in steel rather than wood, and the games became more diabolical. His 1965 Instrument for La Monte Young looks like an innocent, slender metal box with a ball in it. But De Maria designed it with...
...pitchman he is less happy. Too often he is called upon to spray himself with Bactine disinfectant and sing "Down go the mean old germs," take great chunks of Silver Cup Bread (backed by offbeat sound effects) and shriek "The Best Bread in Deeee-troit." When he downs his Vite-A-Minnies, children all over Detroit follow suit. "The mothers love me," says Soupy. He also gets the thanks of the fathers by offering such sound advice as: "When you are in the car with Daddy, don't shout or climb all over...
...Kukla, Fran and Ollie, clobbering its rating in several cities. Outside an 18-hour workday at the studio, Soupy lives quietly in flossy Grosse Pointe with his attractive ex-vocalist wife Barbara, their two children, three and five, and a 3,000-disk record collection. There, instead of Vite-A-Minnies, he tosses down a couple of hard drinks before bedtime, rarely goes out because, he says, "the kids scream at me. They always want me to carry on just like I was one of them...
...defeat, an exact one will be elusive. Perhaps the Terriers, forechecking and backchecking all night with surprising abandon, were far better conditioned than the Crimson. Perhaps the varsity's inability to get in position for accurate shots at the goal, or the alert goaltending of B.U.'s Ralph Vite, was the deciding factor...