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...sight (including the frame background) by drawing it into his vacuum-cleaner snout. "So long, sucker," yells a Beatle as they escape. Nonetheless, the eclecticism of Edelmann's drawings disturbs as much as it captivates. The difficulty begins when it becomes hard to reconcile the different effects of Warhol-like silkscreen backgrounds, Vanderbeek photomontage, familiar comic strip characters, and Pepperland's Picasso thorny shrubs...
More realistically, evidence shows that women will never shake off their chains. Feminism has won its battles, and except for a deranged member of the Society for Cutting Up Men shooting Andy Warhol and demonstrators at the Miss America pageant burning girdles and false eyelashes, there is no neo-feminist agitation against male supremacy. Women remain as charmingly or dully subjugated or as neurotically anguished as ever. Indeed, most are well satisfied with their lot; their freedom is always increasing and no one is really sure that Y-chromosome doesn't give the male mind all sorts of innate superiority...
...Andy Warhol? Schrafft's has long conjured up images of little old ladies lunching on wholesome fare served up by apple-cheeked waitresses. Warhol, of course, is strictly pop, having turned out larger-than-life paintings of Campbell soup cans, realer-than-real sculptures of Brillo packages, and longer-than-interminable camp movies. Still, when Schrafft's decided to project a new with-it look, its ad agency, F. William Free & Co., thought that it might be a good idea to take on Warhol, now recovered from having been shot nigh unto death by a man-hating woman...
...Schrafft's recent TV commercials features a trio of shapely girls attired in miniskirts, and asks: "Have you seen the little old ladies in Schrafft's lately?" The chain's Warhol pitch is scheduled to be aired on New York stations starting next month, and Shattuck says proudly that "we haven't got just a commercial. We've acquired a work...
...Andy Warhol seems to be no less enthusiastic about the venture. "It's fun," he says, "and really pretty, really great." Naturally he now plans to turn out a full-length video-tape movie...