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...gathered in the next few days, the more far-out things can happen" later. For sure, there's going to be plenty of music-several bands are coming to play, and people should bring their own instruments. There will be teepees, air bubbles (Design School people are building a plastic airhouse), and other structures and displays. Local dance groups-including Lindsay Crouse's Dance Company of Cambridge-and theatre groups will be on hand, creating free-flowing ritual events. The Bright Angel Artists' Community will be bringing dance, theatre, and singing groups. Cambridge Intermedia and Boston's Fish Gladstone...
...January, Brazilian right-wing leaders decreed a new censorship law aimed mainly at pornography and obscenity, under which 5,000 copies of the February Playboy were impounded for three weeks before being released for sale in opaque plastic wrappers. Political censorship is somewhat more subtle. By telephone or personal visits, Brazilian army officers tell publishers and broadcast executives which subjects are taboo. The latest taboo is any mention of the torture methods that are blatantly used by police and military against political prisoners. In Paraguay, Panama, Haiti and Cuba, the rules are simpler still. No opposition newspaper is allowed...
...made from driftwood, crushed car bodies, paper and holes in the ground, so why not from photographs? No reason at all, say a growing number of young American and Canadian artists. During the past few years they have been adding a third dimension to photography by sealing photographs in plastic, molding them into shapes and building them into complex structures that transform the original picture. Most of these sculptor-photographers work on the West Coast, and many have studied at U.C.L.A. with Robert Hei-necken, at 38 the old master of the genre. This week some 50 of their pieces...
...result is a homogeneous clientele roughly between the ages of 30 and 45, drawn mostly from publishing and the arts. Although it is primarily designed for serious skiers, it also offers a discothèque with a swimming pool attached, and a theater where the seat are giant plastic puffs filled with rice grains...
...SADDEST thing, then, about Rubin is that he doesn't "Do It." If he believed in what he says he wouldn't run around the plastic society playing the role of bad guy. Bad guys are just as much a part of society as anyone else. He should be off in some corner of the country with his people making a new life, a better life which we could then adopt...