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...Steven Waldman, editor in chief of the Spectator said yesterday that the issue had been blown out of proportion. He added that while the Spectator had run an editorial that "came just short of endorsing the SDC" the Spectator's campaign coverage had neither helped not hurt anyone...
Clearly, this affair-put together by the museum's deputy director, Diane Waldman-does not pretend to be a full survey of Italian art now. Yet she has tried to suggest the eclecticism of the Italian scene by focusing on its manierismo. Most of the artists are obsessed, one way or another, with pastiche, allegory, narcissistic display, irony and side quotation. They are also inclined to a somewhat dandified and bogus kind of religiosity, which...
...Waldman-a writer prone to detect the Eleusinian mysteries at the bottom of every rabbit hole-interprets as a recovery of myth. All the work is extremely knowing. Its images, from Pisani's impenetrably hermetic Rosicrucian allegories to Ontani's pale face photographed as Dante Alighieri, in red hood and laurel wreath, all hang suspended in double or even triple sets of quotation marks. One can have quite a lot of pick-the-reference fun in this show without getting much in the way of aesthetic thrills...
Half an hour late, Poet Anne Waldman rises to introduce the aging enfant terrible, now 55. She arouses the crowd to nostalgia for dissent with the code language of the antiEstablishment. She describes Ginsberg as a product of "postwar materialist paranoid doldrums." She proclaims, to the audience's laughter, that Howl was "written while Allen was living on unemployment compensation...
...cold suffering by labeling the roles that get played: the hero (who insists on coming to work), the martyr (who cannot afford not to come to work), the opportunist (who would not dream of staying away from work for less than a week). To specialists like Robert H. Waldman, chairman of the department of medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, the cold as psychological event seems almost as clear. Waldman points out that the cold allows the typical adult to retreat from everyday pressures, adding: "If we did away with it-if we cured the common cold...