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...underground, right now. I spend my days in my room, sitting before the very computer on which I am writing this column, and I stare. I stare...
Sometimes I stare at words that tell me they have been sent around the world several times before they reached me. Now they have reached me, this underground man, and I get the chance to stare at them too. These words say I should feel fortunate to stare at them and promise, if I send them along to several of my closest friends, that they will bring me good luck. If I don't send them, however, terrible things will happen. They promise me this...
...History teems with a rich underground life - magic premonitions, sly recurrences, what Schlesinger calls "the circularity of things." Invisible wires vibrate between the dimensions of public and private. Schlesinger is 83 now, a distinguished historian who (speaking of circularity) is the son of another distinguished historian named Arthur Schlesinger, from whom he inherited a familiar cyclical hypothesis of American history, the idea of alternating radicalism and conservatism...
...flame too. She cooperated fully with "Yes Yoko Ono," a show that opened last week at Japan Society in New York City and will travel to six cities in the U.S. and Canada. It reverently brings together her lifetime of work in conceptualism, performance art, experimental music, underground film and whatever else she has tried her hand at, including shrewd self-promotion and a kind of bumptious pop stardom...
...underground films, much heard about but not often seen, that turn out to have some wit and brains. For No. 4 (Bottoms), made in 1966, Ono invited friends to drop their pants and walk in place while she filmed the piston motions of their bare behinds. On the soundtrack you hear their nervous chatter as the rear ends--plump or scrawny, smooth or furry--rise and dip and bunch up on-screen. The point that we're all human has been made before, but not usually with tongue so literally in cheek. Four years later, she made Fly, in which...