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...Doolittle of do-it-yourself is a 35-year-old New Yorker named Spiros Zakas. A highly successful commercial designer and author who recently revamped Chicago's venerable Pump Room, Zakas also teaches at Manhattan's famed Parsons School of Design (wherefrom, nearly 50 years ago, issued the Parsons table). Zakas' book, Furniture in 24 Hours (Macmillan; $10.95), a collection of his own designs and those of his most inventive pupils, has gone through six printings in little over a year. Its 128 pages are a potpourri of practical pieces that range from ad hoc aphrodisiac...
...line between reviewing and criticism is a smudged one, but Arlene Croce's dance column in The New Yorker falls into the latter category as easily as Randall Jarrell's poetry chronicle or James Agee's film commentary in the '40s. The dance world can very well use her learning and passionate commitment-and even her occasional irritability...
Ballet has exploded in popularity during the past ten or 15 years. There are more challenges for choreographers and performers than ever, and some big money. Even Hollywood is paying attention. Taken together, the pieces collected in Afterimages from The New Yorker and other magazines raise the voice of a dedicated but exacting lover of the art who is worried about its function...
Croce began watching the New York City Ballet when she was a student at Barnard. In addition to writing the New Yorker column, she is editor of the quarterly Ballet Review. Her standards can be formidably high. What does she like? Certain words recur: clarity (for Gelsey Kirkland), purity (for Baryshnikov), amplitude (for Farrell and Peter Martins). If Croce's criticism has a godfather, it is George Balanchine, who, after all, reinvented classical ballet and made it American. If she has an idol among dancers, it is Baryshnikov, though she thinks that A.B.T. misuses his genius...
...recent years other tremors have shaken the city's school system. After high school, the upwardly mobile but poor New Yorker went on to the City University of New York (CUNY), which sported free tuition upon admission. It wasn't the Ivy League, but a CUNY education was a good one, and it took grades to get into one of the CUNY schools, like Brooklyn College or City College. In the 1970s, the pressures of an egalitarian society brought on the policy of open admissions, which guaranteed a place in one of the CUNY colleges to anyone graduating from...