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...protagonist the kind of humor born from pain, anger and a strong will to live. The narrative voice is a bit like Holden Caulfield playing the Borscht Belt: "I'm a flash and the world is my pan." And: "I guess that's how guys are thoughtful in the '80s -- they accompany girls to their abortions." Postcards, which is really five connected vignettes, loses its bite when it strays from its emotional base in the clinic. But not before Fisher, who once expected to be remembered only as Star Wars' Princess Leia, proves that the pen is mightier than...
...Phil Donahue -- and the sublimely silly uses to which he put them. Phrases like "Well, excuuuuuse me!" and "Naaaah!" became schoolyard mantras, and his concerts were eliciting rock-idol squeals. "He was performing to audiences of up to 20,000," recalls David Letterman, the late-night commissar of '80s comedy. "I think that's a record for a stand-up comedian in peacetime." In 1978 Martin recorded a gag disco tune called King Tut; it sold more than a million copies. The next year he published a slim volume of short stories, Cruel Shoes; it topped the best-seller list...
Just when Berlin painting got hot with collectors in and out of Germany, its expressive energies were diverted into the task of conserving attitudes and maintaining production. Today neoexpressionism, the obsession of the early '80s, has run its course and is nearly as dead as mutton. (Will Baselitz keep painting people upside-down for another decade? Who cares?) But it left behind a small number of masterpieces, some of which are in this show. Neoexpressionism also left behind a quantity of unresolved questions, such as its degree of aesthetic success and its relation to American abstract expressionism, that are scarcely...
...movie looks remarkable contemporary throughout, and it is somewhat eerie to remember that the soundtrack comes from Los Lobos, voted Band of the Year by the once-progressive Rolling Stone magazine in the mid-'80s. When the Stray Cats' Brian Setzer does his Eddie Chocrane impersonation, and Marshall Crenshaw does his Buddy Holly stand-in bit, our generation's obseesion with the Eisenhower era is cast into vivid relief...
...Francisco has lost too many lives -- the highest proportion of any major U.S. city -- in and out of the arts. Moby Dick Records, an independent label with several popular disco disks in the early '80s, folded in 1984 after seven of its ten core employees died of AIDS. IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO HAVE MARCHED ON reads a plaque at the base of the stairs leading to the offices of the San Francisco Band Foundation; it tallies twelve AIDS deaths, including that of Jon Sims, 36, the charismatic founder of the Gay Freedom Day Marching Band & Twirling Corps. Theater Rhinoceros...