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...early Friday afternoon it was almost impossible to drive in the Square, and cross country skiing became the most popular mode of transporation...
...last but not least, the Rolling Stone 10th Anniversary Television Special. Taking a look at that tube folly, along with the 19th anniversary issue, reminds one that if printed journalism is indeed dying, the mode of death will be falling into a Beverly Hills swimming pool and drowning, intrigued with its own chubby reflection. Other than that, from all this self-aggrandizement we have learned only that nobody can write the way Hunter Thompson did, not even Hunter Thompson...
...camera is, it seems, the me chanical dandy par excellence. It is also the model of free choice. Sontag gives a wry account of the uses of photography in China, where "candid" shots are considered insulting and counterrevolution ary; there, photography, like every other mode of language, exists mainly to propagate ideology, and every image must be wholesome, posed, evenly lit, smiling; the camera is Big Brother's eye on the happy termitary. It is a repugnant alternative to the fragmented image, but, as Sontag gloomily concedes, there are no practicable alternatives...
Divorce is an amiable mode of parting compared with the way in which the disaffected husbands in Passing Game, now at Manhattan's American Place Theater, hope to end their marriages. Richard (William Atherton) and Henry (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) want their wives to be murdered. To that end, they have rented cottages at a deserted lakefront resort. The reason there are few vacationers around is that some demented killer has declared open season on them. Wishfully, the two men want the phantom murderer to choose their wives for his next rifle fodder. Barring that, the pair make...
...sound engulfed the audience from all sides, rather than just from the orchestra pit. And the visual scene was intensified by the moving colored lights and the looming shadows of the dancers projected onto a backdrop. And the choreography even stretched the body lines out of frame; a prevailing mode of movement used shoulders and elbows in a fluid geometry of angles and wedges thrust into shace...