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...spell Heineken. Operating on what he calls his "literary radar," not his desegregation fact finder, Murray senses that any embarrassment the girl feels is offset by her relief and gratitude. "What she is really worried about," says Murray, "is some stern-eyed maitre d' and some evil-assed cat back in the kitchen!" It is a pleasure to hear the voice of experience. As an Air Force major, Murray administered a $37 million military budget. He is also a certified intellectual who can whip a line from Sophocles to Bessie Smith, with enough left over to tie down...
...TILLERMAN (A & M). Love songs and ecology blend happily in the song bag of British Bard Cat Stevens...
...full of works of art. Fiber-glass nudes, crouched like Playboy femlins in the Korova milk bar, serve as tables or dispense mescaline-laced milk from their nipples. They are, in fact, close parodies of the fetishistic furniture-sculpture of Allen Jones. The living room of the Cat Lady, whom Protagonist Alex (Malcolm McDowell) murders with an immense Arp-like sculpture of a phallus, is decked with the kind of garish, routinely erotic paintings that have infested Pop-art consciousness in recent years...
...communicate, or even to be noticed. There is no reality to which they connect. Their owners possess them as so much paraphernalia, like the derby hats, codpieces and bleeding-eye emblems that Alex and his mates wear so defiantly on their bully-boy costumes. When Alex swats at the Cat Lady's sculptured schlong, she screams: "Leave that alone, don't touch it! It's a very important work of art!" This pathetic burst of connoisseur's jargon echoes in a vast cultural emptiness. In worlds like this, no work of art can be important...
...been glumly observed that a children's book, like cat food, is rarely bought by the actual consumer. Probably not even Ralph Nader could correct this situation. But what it means is that young readers are peculiarly at the mercy of pedagogues, packagers and harried parents, especially in the U.S., where juvenile books are a $150 million-a-year business. This year commercial fashions-some new, some old-are once more depressingly in evidence...