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Such obvious thrusts at such obvious targets hardly make for brilliant satire. But as monotonously intoned by singer Jeannie C. Riley on a tiny Nashville label called Plantation Records, P.T.A. is the runaway hit single of the late summer and autumn. It seems to have tapped a new anti-middle-class market. One other recent, lesser success is Singer-Songwriter Ray Stevens' Mr. Businessman, which declares in part: "Eighty-six proof anesthetic crutches brought you to the top/Where the smiles are all synthetic and the ulcers never stop." The market may consist either of middle-class youngsters...
...president of Plantation Records, Shelby Singleton, 36, has followed up the single release with an album containing songs about some of the characters in P.T.A., hopes eventually to produce a movie about Harper Valley. Meanwhile, Texas-born Jeannie Riley, 22, a former $50-a-week secretary on Nashville's Music Row commands prime-time television bookings, $15,000-per-night personal appearances, and record royalties that may amount to $150,000 by year's end. So although she is still in the first grade in the vocal department, she has graduated with honors in tax brackets. The benefits...
...walls hang graceful, abstract designs that look like snail shells, plus computer variations on op designs by Jeffrey Steele and Bridget Riley. Ohio State University's Charles Csuri, a painter turned programmer, employs EDP (Electronic Data Processing) to sketch funhouse-mirror distortions of Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of a man in Vitruvian proportions. Japanese Engineer Fujio Niwa has produced a computer portrait of John F. Kennedy that converts a photograph into a series of dashes, all of which converge with sinister impact on the left...
...followed Fort Meade's suit. Using similar arguments, lawyers last week were busy appealing their way to the Supreme Court on behalf of 13 members of an Army postal unit and 83 logistics troopers at Fort Lee, Va., and 23 finance clerks at Fort Benning, Ga. At Fort Riley, Kans., soldiers belonging to a reserve warehousing unit hired a lawyer to try to block their departure to Viet Nam. A suit filed in Federal Court in Hawaii earlier this month has added a new twist. Lawyers for 257 soldiers of the 29th Infantry Brigade are also demanding...
Still, aside from the U.S. exhibit, there were numerous diversions. At the British pavilion, there was a dizzyingly impressive retrospective of Bridget Riley's op eyebinders, and the slender, stark sculptures of Phillip King-possibly the only man alive who has successfully united the minimal and the baroque. In the Japanese pavilion, the most promising young artist was clearly Jiro Takamatsu, 32, whose large-scale pastel platforms were built on weird exaggerations of Renaissance perspective, aimed at destroying the balance between real and imaginary worlds...