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Contents: Tesich and Yeats (In American cinema, a lasting collaboration between screenwriter and director is a rarity. Steve Tesich and Peter Yates, who gave us Breaking Away, now offer a thriller called Eyewitness.”, Division Street (A leading New York critic saw Steve Tesich’s newest comedy in mid-October, and did not like it. On October 25, Division Street closed on Broadway.), Genius and Intemperance (“Glass in hand!” wrote Jack London, “There is magic in the phrase”. A writer friend of the author is wont to toast: “Name me one American writer who wasn’t a drunk except mary Baker Eddy!” Barnaby Conrad, who drank with the best of them, weaves a marvelous tapestry of drinking anecdotes both delightful and dolorous.), New York Repertory Follies (For the last fifteen years, the Vivian Beaumont Theater has been Lincoln Center’s black sheep. Now a gifted quartet will try to bring true repertory theater to New York.), The House Next Door (Brooklyn’s answer to the repertory dilemma.), John Cage: A Grand Old Radical (John Cage, unmellowed at sixty-eight, has sent audiences out on scavenger hunts, stuck pie plates and vegetables on the piano strings, and orchestrated silence. He remains the most influential American composer of his day.), John Cage on Beethoven, Mozart and Bach, Guggenheim in Venice (Arguably the leading collector of avant-garde art in this century. Peggy Guggenheim was a woman who let no burgeois niceties interfere with her freedom.), The Luminous Ghosts of Bloomsbury (In modest homes near the British Museum, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forester and others met and talked. Their traces linger in Bloomsbury today.)
Issue: December 1980
Condition: Very Good