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...jokes about the star-crossed Edsel were a part of almost every comedian's patter. For employees at Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division, which produced the car, it only hurt when audiences laughed. Bedeviled by bad timing and uneven management, the whole division had become a career junkyard for faltering executives and a rugged boot camp for beginners. Beyond Edsel, Lincoln-Mercury's models offered little individuality. They were nothing but larger, costlier Fords. Sales fell so low that many Lincoln-Mercury dealers were forced to depend on used-car sales...
...result is a show with no theme except diversity; the pieces, crammed onto three floors of the museum, add up to a kind of instant junkyard of the future. They range from the tense brutality of Barry Le Va's Cleaved Wall (24 meat cleavers, slashed into a 30-ft. expanse of board) to a lamentable anthology of sculptural cliches that looks as if Gucci had been playing with oak beams and steel joists, but is in fact the work of the respected painter Kenneth Noland...
...saddled by demons. That's a good thing to remember when you're reading Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down. because it will save you the trouble of having to come to that conclusion on your own and then wondering where to go from there. The book is a junkyard for the left-over bits and pieces of American myths that couldn't quite be worked into The System; interesting how you often learn more about people from the stuff they throw away than from what they admit to keeping. Ishmael Reed has taken assorted scraps and shavings from American history...
...less tangible but far more profound crisis is the lack of a commanding dramatist with a compelling vision. Half of today's plays seem to be written in some dusty attic of the past and the other half in some apocalyptic junkyard of the future. The shock fads of homosexual, lesbian and sado-masochistic themes, the vogue of nudity and participatory theater may well continue, but they cannot mask the lack of substance. They are frames without pictures, devices without a purposeful direction. This is a theater that is severely pinched for both means and ends, but at least...
...through battles, if the world would live, and every woman to bear a child-yes, take that root off the high attic shelf of some Prudie Parsely of a witch-ancestor and plant it in the smashed glass and burned brick of the 20th century's junkyard...