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...What goes on in those quiet rooms with thin venetian blinds, and potted plants for 50 minutes a day, four or five times a week, for five, six or seven years? It is easy to conjure the now hackneyed image of one person sitting in a chair with a pad and pencil while another lies on a couch. It is impossible to imagine what they could talk about for seven years. No one's problems can be that deep...
...strong, wild form in concert, but no one has ever disputed his status as rock's shrewdest showman. On Tattoo You, the Stones' new No. 1 album, Jagger's voice has the rough resilience of a scouring pad, and Keith Richards keeps on playing what is, in all senses, the meanest guitar around. The new record sounds like their best in years-many years-but a little attention to the lyrics shows that the Stones are still stuck in the same territory without a passport. The album is supposed to be a return to their strong, singed...
That, stripped of the nudging and stylistic razzle-dazzle that pad the book to length, is the gist of Wolfe's argument. It looks familiar, as travesties must. The dismantling of modernist dogma has been going on for ten years or more; it has been a prime staple of architectural criticism and practice throughout one of the most intense periods of building in American history. Everyone, including Wolfe, knows something about it. But he brings nothing new to the argument except, perhaps, a kind of supercilious rancor and a free-floating hostility toward the intelligentsia. The late bird...
...professors here would take that step, no matter what the guidelines. But if science faculty prove willing to sacrifice their University ties--either to pad their bank accounts or to gain uninhibited freedom to research outside a suddenly-restrictive university--then last week's change of direction could prove dangerous...
Reagan looked up from his pad and frowned...