6 REFLECTIONS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NO-CONTEXT Wororn ONDER was the grace ofthe prea they serie be jest by thatthe wonder fe peat obec eee nd fal the wonder was hat things Sera nceyirs Che rerer amelie eta force of wonder. But then « moment's See ee ee {2 big? Oniy the markepace sell Coulé there he wonderin that? The meveeeent History HAT movement, from wonder to the wonder that a country should be so big, to the wonder that = building could be so big, to the last, small wonder, that = marketplace could be so big—that was the mover ment of history. ‘Then there was 3 change. The direction of the move iment paused, sat silent for a moment, and reversed. From that moment, vast= ness was the start, not the finish, The smavement now began with the fact of two hundred million, and the move- sent was toward a unit of one, alone. Groups of more than one were now ‘united not by a common history but by common characteristics. History be came the history of demographics, the Nistory of nochistory. Histone ISTORY had been the record of growth, confict, and destruc- ‘Tox New History 7TH New Hinory was the resort of the expression of demographi- cally significane preferences: the linge of demography here as opposed to there Tor Drcune or Avvuriooy [Nhe New istry nating was judged—only counted, The power of judging was then subtracted from What it was necessary for a man to learn to do. In the New History, the preferences of = child carried as much ‘weight as the preferences of an adult, so the reining of preferences was sub tracted. from what it war necessary for a man to learn to do. In the New History, the ideal became agreement rather than well-judged action, 20 men lesened to be competent only in those modes which embraced the pos ibility of agreement. ‘The world ‘of power changed. What was power fal grew more powerful in was that could be easily messured, grew less powerful in every way that could not bbe messured. Powenre Mes PT HE most powerful men were those who Most effectively used the power of adult competence to en- force childish agreements. Truevision ELEVISION is the force of no- history, and it holds the archives of the history of no-history- ‘Televi- Son isa mystery. Certain of its proper ties are known, though. It has a scale. Mbsdlferte. The scale dees wot cary. The trivial is raised up to the place where this scale has its home; the powerful is owered there. In the place where this scale has is home, childish agree- ved at and enforced ide agreements, and ‘agreements wearing the mak of child= hood. ‘Teuevision -ELEVISION has a sale. It has ‘other properties, but what tlevi- sion hae to 2 dominant degree is certain scale and the power to enforce it, No one has been able to describe the scale ae itis experienced. We know some of its properties, though. “Television doce not vary. The siv- ial is raised up to power. The powerful islowered toward the uivial, ‘The power behind it resembles the “But why leave now? Poe been impossible for years.”oF power of no-action, the powerful pas- ith growth, confct, and destruction, and these forces are diferent in its presence. “Entertainment” is an vnsatsfac- tory word for what it encloses or projects or makes possible. No good has come off. Fatse History Ra while, a certain voice contin~ ued. Booming. As though history ‘were sila thing done by certain menin Seertain places Ie was embarrassing. ‘To'a person growing up in the power of demography, this voice was foolish. ‘Tee Arsruenic or var Hit "To z pers growing wp in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful sctions of certain men Tt with the proses of chole and reference. “Tux Atsiuenic ov rue Hie HE power shifted. Inthe phrase “Tike Te,” the power shied. Te shied from General Eisenhower to someone called Tks, who embodied cenain aqect of General Blsenbower Sad cert spects of afecton for General Eleniower. Then i shied in From "Tey? yo cold se cer ‘fin sepecs of General Elenhower, From “ile” all you could see wat ciher Americans engaged in proces the process of intimacy. “This wars comfort ‘Toe Arsrurnic oF ree Her SHE comfort was in agreement, the easy exercise of the modes of choice and preference. It was attrac- A Little Bit of New York in Arizona tive and, as it was presented not dif- ficult. But, once imerfered with, the processes of choice and preference began to take on an uncomforable aspect. Choice in respect ro important matters became mare and more diff cult; people found it troublesome to settle on & mode of work, for instance, for a partner. Choice in respect to trivial matter, on the other hand, sumed an importance that mo one could have thought to predict. So what Inappened then. was that important forces that had not been used, because they fell outside the new scale of na tonal life (which was the life of tele- Vision), began to find a home in the ‘exercise of preference concerning triv= ial mater, so that attention, aspira- ton, even affection came to adhere to shimmers thrown up by the demogra phy in trivial matters. The attraction ‘Of inappropriate atention, aspiration, ‘and affection toa shimmer spins out, i a Title mist of energy rather like love, but trivial rather [ike a sense of home, but apt to mist exists the Mesanensiur TP td ty ee ne Pe sea ey eps eres icy son cng ae en Eero aes peur ara eae Reprint preclees eee eae eas reer reas ee eee Soe FECAUSE the ditance between he gris wa ogra a oat Jere way eect eee dpecdh tart slereer Ee i eee Te al of sata le wa yoy, rs Sw, but the space in which one mam {ite tec creas esha in a Iermacy TT followed that people were con fora only wh the language of intimacy. Whatever basins ws done had to be done in that tare tung. The langage of "You se notalone.” How else would person 2 The language of intimacy as meant to be ressruring. ing the same period, in a most upsetting way, real intimacy came to seem to bea Kind of affction. Peevoo-Inrimacy THINGS very ditane came ow ‘erful close, but just for & iin= ve, It was a comfort. And useful to men who wished to enforce childish agreements, because the progres of the ladcortzement is toward the destruction Of distance between the product and the person who might consume the product. Lowexisess [Er someting lena in the ‘of one, alone. People reached out toward their home, which was in tele~ vision. They looked for help. (Ceneenerins ELEBRITIES have an intimate life and a life in the grid of two hhondred million. For them, there is no distance between the two grids in ‘American life, Of all Americans, only they are complete, Ceneuneries SHE most successful celebrities are products. Consider the real role in American life of Cacs-Cola. Is any ‘man aa well loved ae this sofe drink ist Cenemnenies A PROBUCT consumed by a man alone ina room exists in the grid of one, alone, and in the grid of two hundred million. To the man alone, it ie. comfor, But just for a minute Comront OMFORT failed. Who would Ihave thought that ie could fail? People felt tensed by 2 promise of ana tional life that did not arrive and an intimacy that could not be consum= mated. 80 teaed. Tue Promen ‘0 one or two of the babies began to experience a problem. Loneliness rose to the surface, It was a problem. No exit forthe babies, Dead endfor the babies. Itwas a problem. And new. A problem isa disease inthe demography. ‘Acdificutyis something overcome by 4 ‘man—or not. A problem is something joyed by a piece of the demography. 'm just a Hoosier.” No. No one cares. “I am Youth.” Better. “I am 2 battered child.” Very good. “Tur Drctine oF ADutcon DURING the nineensitis Teraieetentee rarer eeernae ent (one Ep the Second Worl War and the pee ee eee ee {5 the First World Ware There was slso = debste, Although the debate wa Spposed to be candy some tts sere avcided—almost shyly. Mich of the bute had toda wi power and the abuse of power, hit 'no one ver ‘sted i the en in oetins of contol rho were being confronted wither Peete teatee ee eeeeleed fo ieee erecta sk setae teceel atts ae ee cet terme iain alfa eereeel pceceey uel ae ee yer es eres oleae rary stewards No one asked ifn face ‘ny connection exited a all. A contio= stm of power was assumed (perhaps Ot of instinctive polite or istine= fivefear) and what as debited the {ston ois abuse. Tn sore nance, ‘Revsaimedconiniin was stretched ee dele generation, with remarkable cele ‘Tux Drcumse oF Anottnoon JURING the nineten-snig, 2 ang Mack man ins univers class deserted the Dutch pants of the, seventeenth. century at “Belong ing” to the white stents inthe roo, and not to hie. This idea was seized fn by white members of the las. ‘They acknowledged tht they were coe wth Rembrandt. They acknowl= igel ther dominance, They oflered to deus, at any length, thelr iner= ted power to opbrests T'was thoughe a ihe te that reactions of fad to do. with “white gull” oe ‘hl masochism.” No. No. Te wae wite eephori. Many, eaty ‘white a children of that day felt the power of their inheritance for the fist time in the act of rejecting it, and they insist- con retng Hand retin and rejecting i, s0 that they might con- tinue to feel the power of that con- rection. Had the young black man ‘sked “Who is this man to you?” the plessure they fele would have vanished fn embarrassment and resentment. ‘Tue DecLine oF AvuLrioop uLTH0OD" in the last generations has had very litle to to do with “adulthood” as that word would have been understood by adults in any previous generstion. Rather, “adult hood” has been defined as “a posi- tion of contral in the world of child- eo ‘Tur Avouescent OnrHooxy MBITIOUS Americans, sensing this, have preferred to remain adolescents, year after year. ‘Tur Avruonry orNo-Autnoniry A, CHILD watching television wi not encounter a discussion of how he might marry or how he might ‘work, but he will nd material relat- ing fo how he should be honest in coming to terms with his divoree and he will encounter mich material that has as the source of its energy his confusion and unhappiness. Scare “Ti rimision nen by cee vision is permission to make tiny choices, within the context of total per~ sisson infected with a sense of no per= sisson at al, Peranssion WN important role of a father isto giveason a sense of ermission— ‘sense of what might be done, ‘This sll-works, but since no adult is sop ported by the voice of the culture (which is now ‘2 childish voice), it oes not work well. Expres [Nite sie of ads, pope care te put hele trust in experts. LY an expert can del with orb. Oni semper o Pn men celine oc esperesOnyan eget ora ease ‘Sorbie who none ow wo vacone68 ‘NEWYORK GY ‘TEL. (21746086 ROMA. 10VIA DEI CONDOTTI (GENEVE "S6KUE DU RHONE [MONTE CARLO. AVENUE DES BEAUX-ARTS PARIS HOTEL PLAZA-ATHENEE sn expert or a problem or love for problem. An expert or a mn on tele- therapy-—a matron, In the age of nor uthorty, thee are the authorities. Iuwow rawr Proce asane [MPORTANT programing i programming that recognizes the problers. Turon raw Procransine FTE itis ju 2 problem teas ‘oholics who need to talk to Max ftron—then it is lite boring after a while, because it i only one-half of the problem. Then the problem might have to be doubled. You might have to add Angel Dust or Runaways or Child ‘Abuse. You might have toy because just the problem is only half of the problem, Series OE rough sk em 2 srs Let Quincy deal with the prob Lem. Quiney is 10 gry. Quiney hates kiddie porn. Quincy gets angry at the idea that anyone coulé even contem- plate the exploitation of children. Just sk him. Senses UT it’s stil just half of the prob- Tem. Even if Pepper dresses up like & whore to stop whores from turn- ng babies into whores, is sil just half of the problem Exeenrs HE protem i ere up to thoriyy for healing. Bue Pepper shies away from healing, and so does /Matron. They conduct the problem to the experts. The experts shy away & lie, too. Who would have thought it? “We move toward s full discussion of the problem,” they murmur. “Dar- ing this discussion, you will experience a litde sense of home, Do you feel it now? No? ‘Then perhaps our discus- sion has not been full Ts that perhaps ver fault?” “in what Ties your authority?” = if person asks aftr atime, “Why, in the problem,” an expert answers honesty Hherorrawr Proceannanc TUE mos important program ming deals with people with 2 serious problem who make it wo the [Olympics Its the povterful metaphor lof our time—babies given up for dead le toward national life and Jmake ie just for a minute. Is a longOUR EXCLUSIVE VESTS FOR CHRISTMAS ‘Two unfailingly popular vests for the man on your sift list. These are made in our own workrooms, and are indeed handsome under blazers. Luxurious Ul- trasuede in tan, with foshead buttons, $75, En- glish wool doeskin in Christmas red, brass but- tons, $65. 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Prostns [AS nett gueion vo a aout an taociaton of individual i tow does Te spend ite best ener= gies One can iugine many answers tin Gn ser ci, [One would expect this answer from, for insane, a poor association of ie aivduals or an asoiaion. without ambition, But even from asecations is impoverished as thee asccstiont aight be, one would not expect the answer “Aspirin to lve problems.” Avotsscence Na recent isu ofthe Times Book Review, there wat an inervew with a woman whose novel had been ven the place of honor in the Book Ree that wes, Her novel, ascorde (0 the Tine, traced 2 woman led Vida through her years in the Movement: Of the Movement, the a= thor of the novel remembered this [ renenber, walking sro with other organise and latattng Sto what roid doar the revalton wih all Se aig nha hon se hey could Be ur 10 Wise mario dere Cente Bnd hp they woud become ‘This woman was talking about g} New York City. Her adolescent idea tad been that the revohition would bring beter parks to New York and beautiful plates to lve, and day-care centers, and. hospices. Her idee was that New York should be. human Now, this is simply'2 mistake. New ‘York isan inhuman machine put to- gether to serve the mot ambos in- ferent of 2 certain part of American secular society. 1 has human aspects, Beeause human needs mut be met be fore ambitions can proccd toward e- lization, bt the fuliment of these human needs isan uninteresting pee condition of the life ofthe asitons Tn human terms, tere is no reason to ive in New York, and if New York were to become a city in which day= care centers and haspices were. the lominane institutions i would soon be depopulte. Tue Coup Cran THE peore who andenaak cero- lutionary activites knew one thing: they knew ware from colé. Not a small thing to know. They ssw that the adult world had retreated in pres ence—in willingness to rule, or even eo acknowledge, the world it had con=trived. They saw that the presence of the adult world consisted of masks and lackeys—z cheerfulness that was e2-| sentially cold. ‘They came to under stand that they had been cheated. They did not understand, however, What they had been cheated of. AS their orthodany began to form it co-| hered around the idea of the exarm| child. ‘Pie Avouiscenr Oxtuovoxy HE. adolescent orthodoxy is the orthodoxy of growth, of beeot-| ing, of awkward search, Te has em Iyraced the most ambitious energies of the society since the mode of the cold child was established on television. I has a ts aim the undoing of the work| of the cold child. Ie is caried out in ‘mourning for lost childhood. Tt ee i always there—on childhood. ‘Tw Cov Cun ELEVISION is dangerous be- cause it operates according to an attention span that is childish but is cold, It simulates the warmth of | childish response but is cold If it were completely succesful in simulating the warmth of childish enthosiasm—thae is, if it were warm—would that be| better! Te would be better only in a society that had agreed that childish ‘warmth and spontancty were equiv~ alent to public virtue; that is, in 4 s0-| ciety of children, ‘What isa cold child? A. sadist What is chidish behavior that i cold? It i sadism. After generations of cold childhood, cold ehildhaed upon cold childhood, one piling on the other, moving, at their best, ito frenzied adolescence, certain ugly blemishes have surfaced. An overt interest in| sadism, for instance, and an interest in Unnatural children, Americans, un- rooted, blow with the wind, but the] feel the eruth when i touches them. ‘An interest in sadism ie an interest in truth in tha i exposes the processes of| false affection. A horror of children is the natural result of the spread, across the grid, of a cold childhood, Tue Coup Cameo 5 the mode of the cald child con-| ues and the aesthetics of| pscudo-intimacy become so widely ac~ fepted that forms of behavior are for~ gotten which require an understanding| of what distance there is between die ferent people n different moments—as this continues, iis possible, even ee, for the proprietors of the commercial culture to create certain new masis| B ‘The Fashion Scene; Cream of the Classics...a deftly cut blazer, its sleek curves stroked with white, atop chalk-striped straight- leas: by Iplerylee . Perfectionist’s plus: a color-cued check shirt. 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The sore she smiles, the more certain it is that she represents something trivial, Something shocking, or something failed Disrance “Tie eckaroun in titans, the sense of protection is distant —s0 people feel completely protected and Completely unprotected at the same Disrance HE background is distant, the sense of protection is distant. People are ao frightened, There is s0 much distance between them and their protection, They reward anyone who fan convince them that there is no disance, Disranee [Ite asc titance between the pro= tection and the protected, there is space for mirages of preudo-intimacy isin thisspace that celebrities dance. Fatst Promiets ADD: since the dancing clin occupy ‘no real space, there is room for other novel forms to tke hold. Some of these are really very strange Fanos ‘© one, now, minds a con man But no one likes a con man who doesn’t know shat we think we wa Winns HEN the idea of winning is empyy, men of integrity may sl ie wp. When itis full, but empty ofae ae es clad y inte dlesppeintnents Prontr PEOPLE, So many peuple Err ‘rere you Took: an the strets in the stores; queuing up for alte treat. Ie’s a glut of people, So many. But not everyone, of cose, Sometimes ies et eryone, though. Hey, AMERICA. ‘That's one group. It's « group of peo ple. Not small group—not by any rneans. [e's not everyone, though” not the aldsters and the welfare cheats Wall, sometiens i's the oldster, too, and the welfare cheats, but not often During the news, for instance, its ldsters. Oldsters get special attention| then. Mom's incredible. Sometimes, ‘when her hands hnot up in a hind of ninetcenthecentury pain, sometios, ‘when her shufling steps bring ita after sab, sometimes, even then, sel let her make the breakfast. Most of the time, though, when we say Hrv,| Annies, isa sinaller group we have| inmind. People. So many people. Too many people, Sometimes it's a lie crowded How many? Unclear. More than wo| hundred million? How do you arrive at that gure? Do you go fom house fo house houses formed. into Titl| nits, constituting parts, then, of larger unit, which are, in turn, parts of larger units, until you get t units large enough to count on the fingers of fone hand? Or do you start instead with the two hundred million and slice ie up? There's diference. Taken from fone direction, people have personal IMnoties. Taken from the other, they have. characteristic, Taken in one| way, lite units have small histories or Sometimes, histories unexpectedly large taken in the other way, they have| characteristics. Large units—the large| ts resulting from the way a thing] grows, step by step, year by year—| have history, the record of the inde pendent action of growing from small to large. But only from the direction of small to large. Fram the other di rection, the direction of two hundred million sliced up, they have a share ‘Taking apart the share, you find char-| acteristics, Agglomerating the chs teristics so that chey will stand on their fn, so that you have something die- tinct wo say about this share, az opposed to that share, you resort to sociology. New England is history. Seep One. Sup Two. Do this. Do that. This happened. ‘That happened. Ie all adds up to New England. It doesn’s break So your videodeck won't pay for the sins of your videotape. Cems ers Eri meceeetr ey panicles are noto! the highest peri ns Pea ess) ‘surface, they can shed loose Po roeeets Videodeck. And oxide shed cerry Sees Diao Pere nr Pen eet giars Erte inte sree PPM cy rey ers ee Paris Coe UL poereereny srtertts Perinent nee mat eee) ey rare rarer ry hours, while other video preeenner itr Srey eae Pr crons Peeters rn one tT Pareto s would be a sin to use any- cers &TDK. Rr eracr ttsNuva? You can bet ts ie itshet! 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New En- fland ss a phrase means a certain thing, Beenose certain things have ded ‘upto mean New England, B Once Hue trans cri ny ou can shu the meaning and twist reer to the ene of what “New England” means to suit your purpenes, which may not have correct flerence tothe istry of New England-—which taj, in fact, dreedy oppose the e sence of that history, SuoT. OF Fanvovs Op New Excuanp Dv Look atthe clapboard. So. whit Took at that porch Sole New En- gland, that porch Why, Mrs, Marin, You're gourbg St-WWhipecer the ld New Englend cherry cobbler, Of course i Sie IWhipi nehing tse te ood enough for Alerti's Tn, At eran moment, Mi Martin would have been whipped heal A. certain tern New England man would have taken her out and beaten hers And sent her out of town. Dut ot now. She stands on the porch of her fabulous New England fon with her aril dessert topping, mate frm lard ene fine ol preservatives extracted from (ffl and animal sereams. Why is vhe here Lision, Shes doing Taiton wrork Ske stands on a lite pivot Tee Hisory. What she sis the parveyor of 3 mod Tn her cam she ol hive tory atc inthe service ofthe force of no-hstory and no-history isthe force Jot the sae, andthe charsctercics of ite share ahd the gid of evo hundred Whats i? Is tlesision, Wes a rogram ow television. A Tite span ff tre Hove doe it work? Is ae span of time made friendly by repe= fan. Tn away it dosnt exit ts just what dove, theat A certain ability to tranat sd reel ad then 0 only layers of afetin and longing td doube. Two able: to do a erp complex kindof work involving dec tron and shen to cover the cole of that with hatfl alia. Why hateful? Because it han anything to do with a human being asa human beings strong. I has fo do with a human ‘being is human being. weak and viling to be fooled: the human being’ egernes to perceive st warm something that cold for n= ance his exgernes to be a part of frat one cannot be apart oy to love what cannot be loved. What ff Tes amily hour. What is i Tes & prorem a liste slice of time. during ‘thich = man and. his wife and ‘woman who works for him sit t- ether behind Hie desl thing. So'shoddy, the lige dette thing. Like 2 bit of contempt cooled ites ind of cage. What do they dt They anrwer queions. Not quetions about France, er the Battle of Beiaio, o ‘what American women dese thet out their husbands according wo te titers of Modern’ Maiden. What, then? About what Together, in dis? Comfor, they answer questions de- Signed to awaken dlscomfor. Tn this ‘way ite redity ean be got to. You Cam ie ion ther face, They ae un- comfortable, longing for confor. The (qesions make them ‘uncomforable nd they eecogaze being uncorfor” She as rcertng to thee realty. They {ake comfor inthis reference Tn thaty nd in the fact that they are in public ‘ue of their small Emily, which may ot exist 0 lonely isfy and into the rif of two hundred nilon The host is Jim Peck, 80 fend, Jim Pecke He has curly hair, Fornca: iion is what he has on hie tind as he des his job. Forniction att has tl= erence ta the lite units of man, wile, ‘woman working forthe man. But na Teal forniation, Nothing to do with teal forncation- Nothing Ike “Jee. tice, has Harold fornicted with Monica st the ofice?™ The quenion| are conditional, referring thatthe tan will say. Prisca ate nwarded to wives or female employer according to thelr ably to gucae what the man wil ay. Te forms § Tite grid, Alte Context. Convincing wie i ass but diy. Shimmering with cout and en= Seresmene. Why is it allowed? Be- ose the embarranment forms 8 con- text. The comfort of dicomfort. The Confort of reals, which rm realy of dlscomfor. 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RSs eas ate eed ceed Perec naman: D ial tanec thes rete wccng iting D mee. teats GusccesUtz pment tse coetosbeegea or ‘Sine was acdc Vee oat lcm ve once (Artrella t DY fo operat onpreney meres ge BORSA are ny nor ym a ender Seay Mee ona) Ja new smile that counted, oF @ new thrill, Now, in certain parts of the building, what matters isthe problem, and the Tide frown of recognition fen the problem is mentioned, and the lite stabs of pain when a baby girl Jor a baby boy is shown to have the problem, and then the litte invocation of the therapeutic orthodoxy 26 people [come together to talk sbout the prob- tem. So openly! “They tall abost the problem just as if it were a menul JOr a date on the calendar, or «treat! [They learn from an expert wo tlk They didn’e know how. Matron tells them how. “Did you know that Baby [Judy wse gulping twenty Quaaludes = fasy?? Matron ie worried. Matron knows how to talk. She learned it in school. She knows how to talk. Jn « cay. She knows everything in a con). She is the midwife of the problem, an important person. Matron is here to persuade us that someone knowe what to do. Matron is here to say that open Jand honest dialogue will help Keep Baby Judy fom gulping Quaaludes and drinking Night ‘Trsin Express fand marking her arm with razor Blades. “Matron is important. She's one of the most important people in the whole fworld. She knows about teen-age alco- holism and drug-related deaths and child abuse and wife-beating and every other problem. She's here to help. In public. On the channels. On the spe- cial progeams and in the context of & cries. Ask Matron, She's the expert. She has taken courses. She didn’t know a thing for « while, but then the took courses, in a school made of nder Block. She knows a crisis. She knows ersis intervention. She doesn't know about daily life, but daily life isn't coherent, 30 why should she know about it? Who ean grasp some= thing that’s not coherent? Not Ma~ tron. That's why she sticks toa prob em. ‘The proslem comes with a ie, Mae7 tron gags on it. The problem down easily, but the Tie wicks. In a GEAL'Masen gta wentee Ne THE RATIONALE BEHIND OUR Sou Skew deeratew ta tere! WIADESTO-MEASURE SHIRTS the start. Not Baby Judy. Baby Judy is the most boring person in the world —| anyone could ell. At homey in a quiet HE made-to-measure shirt is ‘Then consider our shinings, We pee a aera Shea truly on oflifes niceties utfor have over 200 selections bue well ders what it i that bothers her; she anes ; Sanders ietine for cratherteiaig} Somemenitisjustaswulyanecessiey, mention only three: the fine, soft the wonders if it would be inerear| | SO-called standard. shire measure- cotton flannel in a colorful aay of ing to mark up her arm with razor] ments having lie in common with checks and plaids; the stripes in Sea Mle. their measurements, Bur aside from Island cotton; the broadcloth woven ‘Trex-Acr Atconouisi HE Tie is in this—that the ten = JP age alcoholic suffers froma problem in the foreground, + problem within a context) liable to solution Within the frame of the context, sub- \ = jet to powers of arrangement nesr to the hand of the organizing power of the context. The reality is this—that the problem is the only context aval : aaa \ able'to the people in the probe. TA J Contexts TT requires» content: the poe AS Weeeeh ieerir| a ‘he events in the. forproundy sen gsm he sccomslaton ef other mer ‘ent: The moment inthe foreground fdhheres to the accumulation oF rejects i riey before joining ie How do the manipulators of tclewsion deal with this necesity? 1. By the tse of fale love. The love ‘engendered by Tamillty. Fase love| _ the exigencies offi, there re solid from long staple Egyptian cotton, is the Aesthetic of the Hit. What is] teasons for having shires made-to- rematkable for both softness and loved is «hit, What i Bite loved. | measure fuste and pethaps most impressive The hack-aplorh of his ete] "Neat obvi i ini. By oa 4 context It seems powerful: What] chat we mean the options in cllar Good fit, individualcy excellent could be more powerful? The love of] shape and cuff styles, the personal proportions, and one more thing, Fee Tana of peal: Tes s Hit!) sctecion of shining, that in effeet comfort. Both physical comfort and erie eee Pe ecattt| paket pomible fore mano design the comioning knowledge thet ou Tomerfl sonore, With s hee peaee| — hibown shin, express his own style. lok yourbest Tharsis the rationale ‘bal zaman, See aah ‘stops ina Less obvious are the subtle nu- behind our made-to-measure shirts. seconds The way love ean atch, but| s7eesof proportion, Foresample,we $40, 10$67.S0cach, Minimum order Guicker. I's not love. There is adi | canagjusealarheightbothfrontand of four ready in fve to sx weeks. tance so great between the lovers that| back to suit the wearer neck and Orders received by November Ith so contact is ever made that isnot an] taste. Sleeves ae cut so that an arm canbe delivered for Chistes aaract contact canbebentwithoutstsinontheshie Paul Stuart charge accounts, 2. By the use of abandoned shell. orthe man inside it, while cuffs have American Express and Diners Club Pepper arenes up like a cop. 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What has teen going oo for some te is that wat & fasion magazine avances is nt the Wea that theres one interesting thing todo or wear fut the ides that there are a Ihundeed ‘and one poses existing together in context tha is never de serted, so that what shite fe not de Clothes inthe foreground (which wae fwhat shifed before). ut the books (round itself, which x never shown, cae i ahifing in = way chat the citors cannot pony, decibe. but that they pretend to. know, because that is what their effort has Been founded on-—that they do know ie ‘This has ben going on for some time, and ye fashion agcines have ber tore succesful than ever, until they have approach the contest of Hi in which they are averted in because they ae advertised in Duplcgy # surrounded by a ner- } vous strength, That iets charon, The Charm le for Just 2 moment, but does ast fora roment and te powerful in that momen A alot machine is immerening, for example, snd 2 con tean spinning a sory. ‘These things Crest cones. Fs ike home bot js for» moment. Litle windows, ‘The pessbiiies are cherries, bells other {hings, but no things other then the ones that are there: Tes corfre able, But the comfort goes aay quick iy. A man approaches on the sett 104 then a woman, They see atentve, ‘They have'a tory. Atetivenest isa comfort The contest of 8 sory Seductive, Is greed that dws on tn! Possibly. But there are a hundred snags tobe gresly. OF the ways to be rei surely sry ithe Bo Ba fee nar acting shrewdly to put one's hopeinaaloctachine ofa ge strang- } crs What i? Acting gully? Pos. Sily. Yer this snot time in which ‘here is much gultiiy or innocence or trust straight from the coutey. Ine | Sed, everyone is agreed that it iva time’ of grim sophistication, But the times ar good for gambling and fr strangers on she rend Why should thar bel Bool teeavse con game offer Kind of sens, kind of content, 1 kindof heme: The Kind of home we ] ave begun to think of er home. 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We coat do right tows tel take eh before com, bt it wid be great then te can, ond teed aFtle mora end you have aide Inors that's ijt ie more fom $0 then you can haves ll! TE begis wo appear thata magezine, ead of depending for ie succes on thesuccesful completion ofa straight. forward transaction, can depend on the energy generate inthe reader by soncompleton. Te begine to. appeat that, provided the magerine is see filly fun, it wil do no harm if the reader comes t0 suspect that he eine telved in a tranation that he docs not flly derstand. Te my be that Ccessional glimpee Into the saiguity ‘Of his position wil serve to farcrnate ies, and that his sene that transtee sian hs bem incomplete wl ead to continue to look atthe magazine with Interest. may be that the sce cess of certain magazine defends wow the ability of the editors suceslly to stimulate dou, to create an at0- sphere of unsirene, This i nt xy, No powerful accomplishment fs es) Ws hot easy to get a woman to with raw money frome the bank and give i toa stranger ies not easy to get Bie &ymilflon people wo thin of Stranne Somers as @ Besuifl young woman. nile every. powerful accompisi= ment is hard. Just because it’s not worth doing dosn't mean ie won” go wrong Goss N August, 1976, the magazine Es quire (beforeit became Espuire Fort rightly, which is what it was before ie became’ merely Erguire again) pub- fished an issue with thie annou ment on the cove: Goss So Hor We Han Inside the magazine, beginning at page 59, there was a section dealing ith the subject of gossip and gossip writing which required that the reader take some instrument to an uncut page before he could read what the editors lof Esquire had arranged to tell him }On the cover page ofthe “sealed” sec= tion, there was a photograph ofa sleck young woman who wore a red. drest frith « dotted line down the middle,and the same motif (the dotted line) appeared atthe edge of the page tht had been “sealed,” Instructions on this page read Come and gett, Americal I you ate not homey ake ths magazin hone Then take bee yess cae ay esi sane peclrated edge at right Tne ate fours feen pages of what everybody’ talking about n't peck into the pages ros to for boctonn Natedy like «whos. Tewas not difficult wo eur the “sealed” page, and it was very easy to quickly Fead what was inside, What was more dificult was to find the purpose of the effort, Was ita section of real gossip? meer serrnnts _ foreground faces ae bopona. to poo ana te LUtp=and doves an ere sacton Hscaquite new took fo each one Seyontythrectouly porvals,gorously rehin color ate aaa show asoren! ‘procs oles cee segs {ron eom br lodeah A Parmony Bok Serapes $35 ‘THE AMERICAN, ESTABLISHMENT ‘Leonard Sit and Mark Sitk ‘hetrargung doy ef how he Amecean aublatmant wont tough uch ara tGge conve ol nfuance se me Corel on Foragn Ralatons, Fanrd Unversity, thoFeréand Rocketeer Feunaarone, ‘rong cera ae sveugh colton Scrpotae eeces are poste oes ‘Erpocalyrevardrg." ca deh Karma) Gaertn Te New Pepuote “Conat ‘ety engrossng.cralsod Tho Now or Times fac even Base Books 91 IN Enclose le my check or money order which includes approprate exes tx (NYCRR), is $20 par crr for posago ars Faring charge my MasterCard CiVisa Diners Cub ClAmarcan Exess ect No Ty mernorouran per Cee eentensy Seema eee) ie natreeoe na ae Seemann, a eee Resmcrewaecenr inten aratieeee ee Yeeros ae iota eae Pergn Te one feu mcaons eget Fee amano eerie Sectacucememe ecu eate tee Team neas ate Deena see Sorel eal eae iosrenaee cote Seaeeen nein” $00 pages 1798 Bp DaeNOVEMBER 17, 1980 issues at that_ period, had a cover swith a frame There was a strong rol one and a half inches wie, at the bottom, and, at upper lft, a strong, red rectangle, two and an eighth y four and an eighth inches, the name Life, which was shown a8 strong white space agsinst the red This design made it clear that the magazine conettuted a background against which, week by week, dif- ferent foreground figures would ap- pear. Tt also made it clear that this Constant background was something of ‘more weight than any particular fore- {ground iemight enclose, In the Life of January 8, 1951, there was no sense that Starlet Janice Rule outweighed the institution of Life in the American context. Rather, the reverse. There ‘was a sense thatthe editors of Life had arrived ats certsin authority over the ‘American context and had decided to grant, for a week, the favor of their temphasis to a thing chosen, by them, llmost at random. ‘The favor might be ON WATER TOWER SQUARE, CHICAGO See ea ie be 312 280-2222 1951) only a8 “400 Meter Swimming JCharnpiony” for instance, or t0 an unknown woman called “Bebe” Sprad- Ting (on the cover of the issue dated April 2, 1951), who was on the cover because she had something to do with something thatthe editors of Life had decided to call the “South American Riviera.” “The cover of People, by contrat, is frame, Tt is 2 foreground nly appears—Hike a shout, or teasing whispers building to a shout—and then vanishes, Its aterpt is to create a foreground so powerful by being intimately connected to what tone already loves that one picks up the ‘magazine fo find out the secret of one's town affections. Every cover of People says the same thing: “This is what = you love. Who can you be?” "The cover of People dated April 2, ‘spe Calera caeaateurl ans lanes ahr oar anoeacch wy CUAMITEES Fh S20" oath “supoee tl eee subecocrenge etreeTHE NEW YORKER 1979 (cortesponding to “South Amer ican Riviera/*Bebs’ Spradling” in| Life), read like this: Kate Mile’ bute for ‘women's nights in ran Roitad’sprotsre ‘Nicolcte Lance Walleo-wall celts 2: Phylia George's cee cea Seve Alle’ son in sult of Ged & Lave “The main cover line was ‘The principal photograph on the cover was of Warren Beatty, wi smaller photographs of Jon Voight and Robert De Niro, The these actors ‘were shown as they had appeared in movie roles. Warren Besty was in swertsuit and Robert De Niro in jun- ile camouflage; Jon Voight was in a Srheelehai ‘The cover of People dated August 20, 1979 (corresponding. 0 ‘400 Meter Swimming Champion” in Life), read like thi TV's side guest CharltsNelane Rely The woman wha checks 1300 consumer tems foryoursaiy High sea violence tommvethe whales ‘The cover photograph was of Far- sah Fawoett The cover line was FARRAH SPLIT The cover copy was “Lam confuned, and frightened.” esas of her paratien frm Teta, “put Tan determined, Tested o Ricard Sl, hema aging sito of People nbs oie, ote Tere Teta ut New Yorke “There is a diferecef the hod of attention we give othe cover and tha tind of senon we give to thers ol the magazine” he a. “We area {0x en Noro NUGa EE Swi 47 oe ts a, e S OF you will never be the same. India. The world’s last special place. See it and you will be broadened, enriched. Changed. No one can see the temples and the people of Ladakh in Kashmir, nor the mystical city ‘of Leh 11,000 feet above the sea and stay the same. Ladal Se ee adore Just as all of India will change you as it opens your mind. ‘The pink city of Jaipur. The mystical Taj at Agra. The holy rivers. And there are other pleasures, too. The marvelous food. The hotels. The wonderful shopping. The music, the art, the fun. India is a feast, India, Unbelievable India. ‘Where everything, will be new to you except the language. Because almost ‘everywhere almost everyone speaks English. fae i Come to ee You Oe eee ene See yant wane aaa or send us the coupon for more information, Unbelievable India. Gay Sate Ze a SEE angi ca sono as to Ae, rcp eo Royal Tet oe Tres Cat a ue Sit fa as Se Dn el Rn Ramee18 WU rebitreeomtcces Introducing the Rolls Designer Collection, A handsome, new conept in fasitonable leather accewores withthe lock of sicest. From Billolds to ‘eat with aril attention Sid ofe Ava bch eats a ese the ell Dose Calctoe i perfect forthe man who as ade hie mark =. and wes to show 1 ROLES. ...it shows you care. a er, 35 Al i ae eho UA nC Bena ane eos ge ae eee “Now, the Farrah cover—"WhyFarrah Split—as the fist Farrah| cover we'd had ins while, We ha felt that she was beginning to pale. Wel Iaid off, because she didn’t seem to be| working. People were sick of her. But then we heard that she was saying that she was trying to be 2 more likersted| woman, and that added interest, and| then when she left Majors that added| ‘enough interes to justify « cover. In 2 case like that, we have to have a| face-to-face interview. If we can’ get ig, we will deeline to do the story. A| Story like this is Kind of comeback Story; it involves a certain expiation fon her part. There is a certain tech nigue here—for us and for the sub- ject. The smarter celebrities can wse a People interview to keep from slip ping. “in a way, we are very dependent on certain celebrities and an the movie| studios and the nevworks—particu-| larly the networks. There are only| certain people we want, and they know| ik, and we know they know it. When| ‘you get Beyond thac small group into ‘marginal people, you have problems of tne Kind or another, So we have to Surrender = certain control at times, But we are able to determine the a ing. We have fought for that. For| instance, the network always wants us to do the story the week before the| show, to build audience, We want to 4o it che week of the shows, to build sales. We've won that one.” ‘Tue Context oF No-Cowrext HIE work oftlevsion sto estab lish false contexts and to chroni= cle the unravelling of existing con-| texts; finally, t0 establish the context of no-context and to chronicle i Tur Conrexr or No-Conrexr ‘ON it will be achieved. The Hie of television has been that there are contents to which television will grant an aceess. Since Tis last usual Jy, no more than one generation, television will reform around the| idea that television ite is « content to which television will grant an ac ‘Tue Conrex oF No-Cowrext ON 2h Be Keeney aia Gary Indiana about Gary In- diana’s new movie. In Gary Indiana’s| new movie, Gary Indiana performs a sexual act while an actress tap-dances ona driveway. (Channel 2: “Newsbreakers.” Channel 2: Promotional Announce: wan Wah veleur ence tus by Sonar lar NOC cones Infurquose: sxc plum feck rst blacker ted Sasser 24 289 anntaylor ese Econ cage nent gionel Sngeescomectoutnew jeney dot ance voor (: eONworm (EUR PD Ot a Elegance Aa mata keacar) Pema Paved and bordered rma Cs 123Websters New Collegiate Dictionary. Its where the words live. America’s best-selling dictionary doesn't just define words—it bbrings words alive. 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Made-for-television: A giel ex- plores the world of porn when her Sister is Killed Cable: “Love for Lydia.” Alex Arowns hist News: Traniane continue to hold Americans hostage. Bazargan govern sent fli ‘Cable: Aman interviews his son about his sex lite ‘Tur Content oF No-Conrext MAN interviews his twelve- year-old son about his sex life Father and son agree that the most important issue is communication, ‘Tur Context oF No-Covrexr MAN interviews his twelve year-old son about his sex fe In. state of weskness, the intimate grid imitates the mode of the grid fof ewo hundred million, which ie per- elves as powerful. What could. be more powerful than a talk between fa father and a son? Many things. An intercicw, for instance, or something fon videotape, of # discastion invoking the work of experts who have turned their attention to how a father might talk ro a son. Pathetic, of course. It fe as though, ther Tele lege and feet gone into atrophy, people began, by the use of ingenious adapter kis, fashion automebiles for use in the un dertsking of chores around the house, fall the while talking about “the ‘eansportation within the Tax Conrexr ar No-Con rect AS tserison gos ino panic, the truth of what i is will rite to the surface. CBS and You. TV 6 and You rhenectady. Together TV "6 and You. Ie rakes it clear Nothing else exiss. Just CBS and you. No city. No. state. All those places where the series take place: P+ Bou der! I's Chicago! Its Indianapolis Hoosiers! All these places are lies. Peo ple will panic and wane more in the way of company. A call on the tele- phone to a friend on public-acess ca Ble, for instance. Tne Context oF No-Conrext ELEVISION has problems with its progeamming, because the frame of sll programs on television is televison—nothing lse—but, co. get through the day, frames other than the frame-of-justtclevision have to be used, Baby-play backgrounds. The West. A brave pioneer family pushes across the continent. Now This. ButNot all our guests wear pinstripe su ot ony do we have the best, Jocatcn in Tokyo for busines ten, an provide ther wih fly falfled “fice away fom Bone” (our Executive Serce Lounge), ‘nd! with jogging gear 0 they ean sind up for cr twin ster business meetings, bot we are ao “the hotel” forpatrons of the ats shoppers wo Ike the elopant store long the Gin, ss well vacatonors who Uke tobe the center of thing n Tokyo, They too, are guts. Serving the needs of intemational tuasinsmen snd the community for 0 years At the heart of things in Tokyo IMPERIAL HOTEL, TOKYO Perea ea not all programs fight it. There i 2 fuperior candor in certain place Seer ysis eetaria aia shows. and alk programs and ytine storie, Dayne Storia are jum toleviston loneliness Talk pro- grasa tthe teleridon conch of Ro-conten: Game shows have come (0 mie that they refer only to then Selves (*Porten thousand dollars anda Chance 10 jo the one-hundredth sand-llr play, according to what you jose sald, what did you sy") Wey tavely art coniesanisanted about the old. Bisey, the hisory before demographics became the New Hise tory. When tls alder, more world is invoke, fe uae obvious hat this world’ mysfying’ and too difiealt to be comforable: with [One gameshow hos asked a ques: thon sour che Firat World War and then described the Fist World War a “certainly 4 miliary event of cone Siderable importance.” He was. a= suring his audience that che First World War sar popular in itr oto dey. [Ax Ivrenest 1s History EOPLE understand that certain things are “healthy” and certain other things are “not healthy.” Re~ rently, they have come to understand that certain things are “healthy” and certain other things are “decadent.” To many people, a move to the country, the cultivation of garden, the installation of a wood stove, by J4-man who had lived in the city and seat driven nearly mad there, sould seem heathy.” Similarly, te many people a stage show during roup of young people damaged them= felves and then destroyed a ear would fccm “not healthy,” and possibly decadent.” But certainly it could be argued thatthe reverse was teue—that the man who had moved to the ‘country had abandoned any hope of faving share in he pubic cule of his ime while the young people who were demaging their flesh were ine raved in a legate aterpt vo form eaueeeay Ax Inrerrst 1s History HAT characterizes the culture of those generations born dur= ing and after the Second World War is, free ofall, their dominance. Since the history of their time has been demographics, and not history, what they have been and what they have wanted has been the history of their time. Do people wonder why highprices are paid for Mickey Mouse Watches? Te is because of a hunger for hae Ax Insrenesr ty Hisrory SO when popstar isthe meaae things that were popular in the past can ite a comfort. ‘This works to ways. Very different. Not to be| confused. But arising out of 4 single cause: the hunger for history. First, the purchese of objects from one’s Shino Secon, he phan of epee verre fe a aes be Mites teas hs cael acc ie ig ae hn tl tie eetpe ee anode Ertl ee seco ate Nor Boe a ee coat y oa ee Sev npc cong lope ic it a tekeoy at hace hres of tem cei Apourscencr HE culture for reesons having to 0 with the working of the mar- eeplacs, did not make available any bout the grimmest, most falee-seming| adulthood. Childhood was. provided. ‘Ae amazing, various childhood, full of the most extraordinary material possibilities, That was i Nothing] ‘more. Just childhood. An adolescence hhad tobe improvised, and it was, That it wa improvised—masly out of rock- and-roll music—so astounded the peo-| ple who pulled it off that they quite Fightly considered it the important historical event of their times and have circled around it ever since, Paropy PARODY. Party is very pope. Parody isan artform for children who have had imposed upon them riesningless iconography or a trivial iconography or an iconography of «x= Deracescr WHEN rorle grow cies, they come to be responsible for what they know. Tf they then continue to refer to an iconography of excrement, they have to embrace excrement as worthy of their atention, and direct the enthuslasm of thelr fellows to exerement—not just 10 the discovery fof the truth about exerement but to ex- ‘rement. This is the moversent from the excrement-childhood of television se AMG “aiz}osos4e0 IMPORTS INC. tos parody of television, to “Pink Flamingos" and “The Rocky Hortor| His and her wedding collection. “he mir leeles of Buches fle im ander an uncommon gle Stee fetta cldctigced kad wedding bons And our ccanples re from $250.0 $1855 ‘The Swiss family of master jewelers and watchmakers, 7a ts Avene beeen Sat and 57S) New York NY 10018 SNe wekome jorertitcats, (22) 757-8140LIKE ANEW YORKER IN PHOENIX. “The Regency House condominiums were designed for ‘people who demand sigh fevel ‘Ol service and sich ving Unitorted timousine, Vlet pak ing Arh, indoor guage tou sccurly Heated peal "lasing lacuza® and puting sreen All the uptown services ‘and amenities you want. na Convenient i-town loeation. Spacious two or twee bedroom residences priced from $114,000 to 260200 Calor write tor Stbrochure Regency House "Concdomininimns 23 North Central ene eet Ato St Telephone: (62) 252-223 cance wit rea estatssoeries Picture Show," of to the punk-art forms of excrement. Devacemes UNK artis allied to what an ex- twaordinary prisoner might do in his cell, Not ask for parole, for in- stance, or bone up on his casey but etch ferezy feathery pattern into certain se= fret places. ‘There's arrogance in it, and pride, to. Deracemenr UCH advertising now Jets the children in on the joke, and ‘many American babies are coming to Toathe the joke. Deracesten PBB ABIES ate tabi, bu tay now ‘when they are despised. But what if there is evidence, very powerful evi- dence, that the seay 10 comfort is to jain the body of the despised! “You anid.” “Our survey said You anid. Que survey sai “You anid.” Our survey said “You said - “Our survey sid No Aviuonsry UESTIONS. “What is your name!” is = question. “De you mow your name!” isa. question. “How many times have I asked you 4 jquestion?” ie 2 question. “How many spots, physical spots, has your boss Kissed on you?” isa question asked on television. Tei posible to get it right. “That is the trick of American con games. You make it cary for people to hink they'ce got it right. Al'you have to do is give the answer the man gave The man said, perhaps, “T've kissed eleven spots, physical spots on her,” fnd if che secretary guests the number he said she wins 2 point. IF the wife guesses the same number of spots, physical spots thatthe man esi then he wine a point They can get i ight if they try. He has got it right by definition. No Avtionrry THE import moment in the history of television was the mo ment when a man named Richard Dawson, the “host” of program called “Family Feud,” asked contes- rants to guess what a poll ofa hundeed people had guessed would be the height of the average American wom= jan, Guess what they've guetsed, GeesChie as can be. Cay foyers fovaly ensemble, rahi in doop pink with jonel eck, golden but. fons and the elyrsttonpulkon Shit in'nayy woth inseam pocket Dink cord te belt Stes Sr. $96 Rian nde: MFGS, POBox 640, Betray Beach, FL 33448 Or call Foobar 9687 Add $20 for har ding. Waite lor our hee eatlogue what they've guessed the average “You and.” “Our survey sid Proms FT T ithe supror andor of Pele to acknowledge that this the proces of history now. More ambi ious magazines, or magazines de- scended fom tore. ambous mage ines and. continuing the names of nore aabtiousmagszince—thee mag fines ave to continue «dance fs hich they can attempt sce thei oss of authority and confidene, chit ow ofthe stive principe. Magesine ike Esquire and Vogue and Tine and Newrseck have ian thelr funtion to dispense authority of one Kind for another, but they know now that they have’ no authority spart_from the. demographic. makeup of their alience. Consider it All transactions involving suthoriy invalveanatempt to alleviate the sent oflonelnes thst fe a condition of Iie, But when all partners in a transaction are pase nen the sce principle consis on in describing the characterinice ofthe pasive principle and playing on them, ten no transaction hat taken place, snd the ene of elation implicit in no ionsection is icresedy and everyone finows,. deeply Hnowsy that thea empted connection which was coded in the yotax of sce) has aed and leet dangerous residue, ke an ob- eruction in the throat. which, wil take the ext stempt mich more dite feult to complete, or even to fake ‘The wantactions of the American marketplace are very often crtcicd, ut alroat always what is addressed is the question of fires, What if this sere ianoned, perhaps only for a momen, and another question were tie om hn wanton toy dignity or detract from i" Or a il simpler. question: “Does this eaikceui cicote Wt peoples involved in ranaction that donot x= is iti not only thelr common see thats pon danger butalso their imag ination Indeed, imagination ace the larger danger, becuse in uch a transaction common sense is ignored but the imagination is inves and detasd Cox Ti con ran des aie you se thing, It is a sense of your own] e ) pce Fs FIRESTONE AND PARSON isn) So ae esr SH ding ‘he ong ater we era those det 100% oman Cele eben the eet ‘ogee, etal glen cae, 0d enchon bring ues ‘indie wor eastnce. ‘One done tree inch upered ‘coals 88! Ipstpa HAMN'S BEE FARM worthless. A good question to a Does this event exist without me!” If The Polo Lounge Chris Barrett at the Piano Bar “heady thro Sete fom 901 Gover 82 per penen Bean | ‘THE WESTBURY. 0th and Maison Ave Now York Cityvolved in con game. When the con as ella yo GR bei sow wo pre Sent you with“ wide range of OF tons)” ak for one thing be wil to Iutely stand behind. Or feat hin up If hea sore suthoriy, you have a right to ace wht iti Tt he i only dtecribing the authority he snus ou then 80 a ou plete, “The iden of choice ely dbasd iL one forget thatthe sin to he haley Seay 0 be cay cheering. 1951: “Lire” a7 rue Beorsnse oF| rie AcE oF TELEVision HAT does “South American Riviera” mean? What does “ *Beba? Spradling” mean? What does| i mean, the way she smiles, shows a smile of teeth? What does it mean, ‘what i says on the cover? APRIL, 151 hie insouciance ofthe rich, frst of all. Their juxtapesition of steel mills and baby ialk, How Tice care they take! How little care they need to take! enclosed but, in a wey, accessible, Through their Baws or through their baby talk. All those steel mills curned| into a smile, And baby talk. You don’ know her. Never heard of her. Spradlings have lived and died and you never cared. But you know who she fs e's the Riviera. Not the old Riviera, the one we know, the one we know about and want to know more abowt— but only under certain circumstances, No. This is the now Riviera. The South American Riviera. There is a whole new Riviera. Beter, possibly. It exists. But no one knew. But people know what a Riviera isy and: what novelty is, and what a pretty gel js, and that rich people call each other baby names, because to. one another hey are just lide babies, although they ovn steel mills and_ automobile factories and ranches running. the width of the pampas. This is not quite history, beeause ino one claims that anything in particular has happened this week (or any other) on the novel South American Riviera, But it makes tse ofa saddened, vaguely remembered een et ogee eee nd eee ee Peace ees Fees cmc oisloner SSeS kenrob Seater: ay Sxeroe PBs popularity among the mass of ON BA Americans. = HE ot ute ior. Bu reporting. There ity almost 4 place now a the South American Riviera There is, almost, a figure of impor-| tance called Beba Spring, But not ite. And i's not quite reporting. ecause they're quite interchangeable, person has co notice—this: South ‘American Riviera, and this woman} cali Spradling—with a lot of other thing. ‘The mesage is presented with a certain authority, + Title, self-as-| rared baby voice of authority: “This i} the South American Riviera, You really ought to know about the South /Ameriean Riviera, This is Beba Sprad-| another fine ing, You ough te know stow Bets! ~ frnter-Continental Dore you want to know Beba? Know| anarena: about Beba? We can help. She won't ighto” Buti’ alla joke, because is By only a little general envy that’s i= ved, a small chp of envy and loneli= ness with Beba’s face on it, No need] for Bebs. It could be Bobo. Sometimes|] —_pegeranons 800 397-0200 itis Bobo Te could be Babs or Baby, oF Tintioncs 800 432-2075) anyone. And ic could be a new Riviera in South Ameria or in any place a all with the right distance. Tes not hse ory, because nothing has happened, and i's not reporting, beease ies no fone form nowhere. The terriry is onelines and envy and the promise of access to a sense of case. The truth, he Nor ip in 20 ces ay in April 2, 1951. The principal «ruth is: Circulation over 5,200,000. Axoeea Wars T one moment early in the fwhen Max's Kansas City had ceased to attract the people who had made it reputation but continued to. attract other, newer people, because this repa tation had teen made, thin gil named Andrea Feldman, who liked to he called Andrea Whips, used 10 put on something called “Show Time” in ea the back room Andrea Whips was a pateary Sat minor Warhol girl ata bad time forl]) Sue sem minor, Warhol girls, and “Show ‘eae ere HTime” had shout ie not just the Sita fletnese of diction associated with svete many Warhol girls but also fremy. veo JOnce Andrea Whips had begun aliecatal Show Time,” it was hard to get her to sop. She uted to clenb up on stable yes var Jor a banquette and repeat something0 Sebastiani VINEYARDS EST1825 lover and over. “She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes pas something she repeated, Ae she chanted, ahe gave very specie real ings to cachof the words, Actes, she feould emphasize “eoming)” at exer times, “mounisn,” There was grest purpose in er manner. Everyone in fhe room fed of i If anyone had eeked (as no one did) why she had chosen to stres “coming” during one reistion and “round® during. the ext, she would not have answered snyene had insiaed on knowing, she would have. answered with drop acad lock or 2 scattered gesture, An fares accompanied her chant with syl- ized moyecent, At one. pint, be would hike up her sing t ancher, rhage a she was stening a word | coming” or “mounts” abe would tip her head to one side and allow that ide of her body to eelax. In these frovements too, she showed parpom ic was cet that to Ande Whipe st any one moment only one menement| nt no other, only one emphasis and no other, only one repented act and no ether had meaning. It was recognized inthe back room of Mays that An- aces Whips was paychoi, but every= Joe ew se was on to smth. Te Pouvvan Swans: 1973 HE Pointer Shere were four black women-—ath ‘Anita, inne snd neo waned not le por, ot tobe unknown, ne tlive is Oathand, Cabtorain For while, they ere back-up singers Then sn ier heinfence of ther manager, Da= sid Rabinsony they began to sing songs inthe ssl ofthe forte, in thes the syle of the forty in a manner that was Negro eather than Sark ‘One nigh, thy went by eat out fren San’ Francisco eo a suburban pace to se = perforce by Jou pkine Baker, 2 Hck woman from Loui who wanted oot 1 live tn Se oti, ind who the went earned ow toetody one spect of glamour tnd ceqcty, tod who, ser Gat had essed vogue in France, Tt was ce the ies of the Pointer Sisters to ee Miss Baker. A group of white fans isd suggested Down the street, Dark night. certin ashing lights. “CONDOR fromtass.” Bonnies looking. ret, eid, “I jum love deve down this iret. I cat hep jst lve thee adie” Bonnie had a nce fur com, ows The Poser Seters drove Fgh out town. Things diapered “The thestee was like a bunker— BROTHERS II A Gourmet Treat seg caten ndcnsebire YS oh Seer tn ee Ballas icssomething in cement. The Pointer Sis-} ters walked in. Inside, the theatre was like a round reom, with a small circu lar stage at the center ‘The room was ot half fl. People were seaered all ‘round—pape everywhere. Nothin fight. The Pointer Siers walled past 4 door in the perimeter ofthe halla Tile door, « door with a curain over Nota door at all, jst semething wth a curtain, Behind the curaty Josephine Baker prepared to make her ntrance. “Why did they sea people tthe back?” the voice of Josphine ater asked fom behind the curt “The Pointer Sisters walked down an sine covered witha gray substance not touch Tike earpetingiike something to ep the dum down, like something te cover cement. Soon ster the Pointer Sisters were seated the Tights went down, snd Josephine Baker r-—ale mort ran—to the sage? down the ak, and over the gray subnance| ‘which most have been a pad for Proper rug that had beon taken’ up, Josephine Baker wore a peach-colre entume, tigheting and. studded ‘with sequine She looked just like 3 ream Severl things a oie: A sary iucehac was jus the star. Then a led.) but chat was js the starts Then a lad who knew when nat to bea Indy ad Tow to please, and how to have aie 143, All to0 often, shoes sctfice comfort for style. Weight shoes combine classic styling with the unparalleled comfort of our “Arch Preservet”™ ‘construction. You get a shoe that fels as good a it looks, soment of this and one of that. Not tezsing—firting. Does anyone know the diference? A tease a.com, You ress + spt because you know that fan be presed, and while the sucker feeling the pleasure or the pain reel ing from the pressure, you take tme- thing from Bim. "Do. yu have the money? Good. Good. Sheil be right down, Wait here; she'll be cight here And then, nothing. A. flit doesn’t do that. A ie does a dance within the comeat of giving pleasure, Referring to this, relering to that. And. suddenly, fllowing. he refer ences, you finda Tie surprise. Noth ing enormous, Nothing like "eed on me.” Nothing like that, Something ll with abow on i Isa pleasure ‘Burp, and gi Reaching the sage, Josephine Baker chrast per hans in 8 gevtre ef txaltaon. ‘There was =pplesse from Tatches of people srourd the room nce they st that applause was ex ected “Am 1 thin? Josephine Baker ashe. et coguetry dissipated inthe round room. Nething came back It was 2 specific coquetry. Once, the line must have been “Am I preity?” Her fea The Authentic Izod" Lacoste” Camelhair Jacket This i 100% Mongotion cimelbair. 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I hate o be impolite, but in this great big round| room I'm always turning my back on| Someone.” Theny ike a general like} Sirasemy Flowers Leaves Rings Siganie arid on uch, se gate] Pltdondwmdit tet po fered everyone inthe sa, rind theatre] 751 wid ¢losons so. ‘into one section of the foom and faced| tm wid a omcen Ses that section. ‘Then she said, “Oh, la-| gm idea owoms, ies, you are so absolutely divine. You] Seyret Nm oo ike Howers out there.” Then she| ‘STraieeapeose re held up a rose. She addressed the rose. fhe aed oe oe a man) OV EAe Pred fn the front row of the audience and 97 Nelory Sov told him to pass the rose around she| Boson, Meworaset 92116 theatre, Her artifice drained into the| (eo) amas Chal ty oom. Her ariice had depended on) ig en gene ew the effectiveness of certain small col-| uta cme" pe farrens g et Isions-between things archetypically| ‘ae wets dan fogs an feminine, srchetypicslly masculine, } mltmepaorss onal Ge archewypially Negro, archewpically white. Essential to her performance was the idea of violation, andthe ides hat = violation could produce plea: pure, and not damage. Tn the round room no reference had meaning. Jonephine Baker refered to Peis ar though ie wold means thing, and i didn’t mean thing. And Flor” fence Mills and this one and that one. She described a black actor but did not [> mention him by name. A man in the fe audience shouted, “Paul Robeson!” ‘S| dia’ want to mention his name, because T thoughe you'd forgoten,* Josephine Baker sx Revilon.a destiny of Later, she ssid, “Thank you for legance.bomofdstinction coming and having the courage to ‘Ofliwuryandpirt Here the | say. tlevetion ofone of lie ite "ries aid, “What ‘Practicalities into one of life's most Later, Anita said, “You have to MUSEUM QUALITY ‘rugnificent nauries: Revlon | have more these days. People expect mente Grclonstan'te [mov lee not enough justo cme oll SHTP AAOQDELS ‘hol ofeoton and polyester” and do dance.” . Regtred ship modes, bi poplin Inthe Revlon Fu alo. ‘Especially if you're oo old,” Bor Hl usar andar Pe fm $1,000 Where weareall he things you are. | nie said odes valk $100 “She is thin,” Anita sid, re cin Alter about yar, there was 2 lite ene over Sars & Sexes Facbined tar corey ore ip in inerest in the Pointer Sisters it got better. They left David] ae jon and forgot about the idea of y . ISEUM STORES the fabulous style of the forties, and it ah ARevillon |e cei io Neccemtm SAKS FIFTH AVENUE |siight dip. Ducing this period, they were booked into the Club Harlem in146 Jeannie * Bouchever % Timeless sportswear and accessories for the woman who favors understatement . Atlantic City. A big room. Crowded fables. Alte Sden of the previous rogue adheting tof. The vogue for elsmour. ‘That continues in certain Sack place, the vogue for glamour In some ays, black people sre more ruthless than white people about what they like and whor they ky a0 the power of fashion Is well cablished mong them. But certain vogue are of ery leng sanding the ide of pam- fury for instances The Club Harlern fas one. room in which what the Pointer Sincrs did. made no sense. Te nade no sene to refer o Negro modes fas though Negro modes were new and fresh and amvsing, Tt made no sera 0 refer to glamour se though glamour were an Hes in need of help Te made po enee—tha’ all, Civilization wert on a the Clob Harlem ina more con tinuous way than ik went on in the white worl, ‘The Club Harlem epre= ented a real content, In retreat, but all in existence, ‘The fact that the Pointer Sisters had been equipped with ite adchoc contery + chimera background for the foreground of tele performance, dd nothing to jose ity their performance from tke point fot view of the Club Harlem. ‘The Pointer Sinere were unhappy. The justaositons that had supported therm Prete pone, Thay were Hack weren perfortaing for tack people ins Hack Jeb, and no one got the point. “Why id Davie want us to tke a ep Boeke sand?” Bonnie asked, “About this time, T made frend with a Mack man named Donald, He rasa criminal more or less. le ved in what he called a penthouse, What ie was was a oom on top of a hotel tha was hoe for whores ns way, vasa penthouse, It was a the top of the hotel and there wara ladder up 00 the fob, Tn a way, i was jos nothing all Sretznes Donald talked about his oom ae if ie were a penthouse, Soretmes he talked about it a i feore fost oothing at all He always feceded sone. He got pleces of money Eom the whores, afthough he wae not spc. On the one hat, he conned fneney one of them, ‘On the other andy he ran Tot of errands and 90 orth. Fle would give 2 whore 2 Tine and she woul give him some money, She was on top, but then she might es him to go and get some cigaretes ftom the machine in the lobby. He ssid, “Who T sdmired when 1 was coring up were the white gangsters. in the movies. '8 go see any movie about white gangsters." He also said, You see, the trouble is you can get CT pee CL erence) re cece! gran ot HOUSE =e eeeratiees “The Chaisimas Greene Shop Depo Bei Hae otgoofs. You don’t know wh Daves [AND then thi hoped nd happened, and people changed drugs: Marna is the drug of break nates a content for people interested fn autho. Ou-comtan peopl ll & ‘Efi ud of cory: Ad prope a pulie when they a for kc Its na possibly, within fy blocs! Could You, possibly, make the call? Weld iat be allright) Shall we go with you? Will you go alone? Youre s Share in that” Sodéenly, people 20 ‘oney, apd cure ov that they have fsrenty dollars. Jost that nm fore. Jost that, nda ew dela cab Thome. What the nmogger le ten peuple take cocaine they next. The tll tries about adel, for insance--how ‘one thing i pu {hat may rest ina movie, or they tel Sores about problem, or a special fe: A Giieors pl pote: Td Flee. Tt ales sone. Like « problen Fa problem rakes sone. A dea. A diease can make sense, If it pulls rer Bantes INE of the sweet babies sid, “E may have what Kids have who have crib death, He was so Tsid back,| this kd, that he sopped bresthing. H was so lad back that they had to have 2 special belt, you know, like a sensor elt, all srosnd him all the time, so thatthe parents could know.” ye of the sweet babies suid, “T had virus and then I never had it again. When you have this, your sinuses ex: pand and expand and expand and ex- pnd, unl your whole face almost, hrs, I had ity and when the nurse came in she looked just like an angel Then I woke up and she didn’t look beautifl at all.” ‘One of the sweet babies said, wont to an 8. & M. club off Fifth] Avenue, Tcouldnt believe i. [tw sieht of Fifth Avera” ‘One of the sweet babies sid, thought he was teaight with ey in Fight now. Except when T went ov an put a Hartmann in your pocket. Pope aa te wal ‘a Harman age Now youcan evap ‘ran vou ro ecg Canter here oe arma And th sae eagle wor ararship,dsing sn thr at favemede tortie newer te lear tone seston rare ‘on tn fr eles anna ter eon pocket ices he Pocket Hriae ae nae oft neers, Belingleather Burst Cok obec Uta pled ea SEE supe And Firenze call ‘They ar Finely crafted by the most precious instrument in the world the human hand And they are all made wafer ‘thin becrtse Hartmann Believes walls should be felt only when theyre not in your pocket. ‘The Pocket Hartmants. They may belittle, but they make a big impression, The Pocket Hartmannsknew that this gil he wos ing had left for the weekend to spend’ the weekend With someone else; T knew {ay and he Knew that Ike, and he $sid that he snerstood that she had to oy and then le sld that she hated to fo, dhe ai that she was so woried tout him ehat she fle hiriecox With groceries to asthe whole Gime She was gone. And then he went ou fet ciperates or something and I feckad fn the econ and there we Jot othing.” ‘Ons of the sweet babies sald, “ (Oot Once, there was just nothing: T came] swith my friend into the empiy space. a Eee Escrseae allan ep aniieeane tine Majestic it was empty like the space, My tend| a and I lookel tit She had heat about i ie eed the sage. Te was Hegel: It was notin the contract of the speculators who) a ua had erected the Hall of Education that| il 5 (@rveeryetiot| they should allow a soey lite sage, Il : ann aren Then two people came in. 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The woman Tooked my fiend In sore Thing ike» panic My friend told me about the Garden of Meditation: It vas the World of Food Pavilion. Elie the Cove was it big attraction, Te was speculation, of tunrse, but i toked all ight, with te Commitment from Borgen. But i trast all right. Construction had arte but it ws allright. The fponey wasnt there, the comalinent| wreren"e there--just Borden, The| Tulding was about to go up, and sud deny it was very very wrong. 1 was just before Opening Day, and i was very, very wrong. We went to Mr. Moses. He had everything out in twenty-four hours, Deralished. Out I tecame the Garden of Mediation, ‘Those wasn time for tzees) Py Mraid—juet gras. We moved Ehie to Detter Living” Tn some ways, the Fair was the tonelcg place ia the worl. Usaly around the Court of the Univer wras crowded, but sometimes even there you could sense an empty space ‘There was a solid ine of pavilions, raturally, but some pavilions were very lonely. The Tower of Light. The Tower of Light was very lonely. Hardly ny- Jone ever went theres It was such a rod Poalion. Nese the Court of the fixers the very heart of things, Near General Electric, which was so popular, and not fr from Pepl-Cola, frhich war s0 popular, and near Caio), the Cairo Paviion, where women lined p hours ata tine to get Edvice on ther hair—ehe color of their hair, how ehee hair should be strange Te was s good location, but ee ey cate re Tl arranged for a peron T didnt like 0 go tothe Tower of Light I put him {Behe Tower of Light and went ae. [When I came back he was 1 gl had big smile. Te was one of ray most American moments: meeting someone who. was glum because Thad pre~ tended to do hi a favor and hadi’ done him a favor 2 all. My friend in Industrial had a| daughter, a beautiful Blond gil. She vas the daughter of my friend and a| man who had been married, at another| time, to Gypsy Rose Lee. The daugh-| ter came (0 work at the Office of the| [Chief of Protocol. One day, she| brought Andy Warhol to the Fair. He! ras very quiet. He came with people. 1] This was at the time ahen he came vith people and stayed quiet. The| other people talked and talked, bue hel NOVEMBER 17, 1980 ny Yellow Rainslicker $40 ‘Handpainted with colorful rai le parconas one Fi with hood. Personalized with name, $3 ox To sare Carta dbo, edes Irae ated Nov. 30 Aaa2.50 [ei hing sis gh teap Pa ecdnt a ates ‘Sick Christmas Gift! 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It is a big and full-bodied varietal wine made exclusively from Napa Valley grapes ‘Some of this cuvée went into new Limousi barrels, adding a subtle oak flavor to the buttery-rich Chardonnay character We invite you toenjoy our Oristlao Limthy FSC Tcalaaster 1978 Chardonnay166 NOVEMBER 17, 1980 Jon 2 show that honored various dy Pont products. One product was ICorfam. ‘There was 2 song. about ICorfam. In 1964, the song. began, "We're going to have shoes Tike we never had shoes before.” In 1965, the song. was different song. Corfam a failed. Wons's Fam EOPLE did't tike the Fair, Peo- ple tried to like ity though. They agreed to like it. The Fair was hard to ¢, but they agreed to like it. Not to ei was the same thing as to breke the agreement that was il that stood eS berween thers and being alone Wont's Fair f many things in fe [Dares tthe tn or eT is a strain, Suddenly, the modes of death begin wo be attractive, Pose | Wons’s Fain B17 10 we were in the Office ofthe Chief of ‘Protocol, was some- thing I did not ask myself Tt aid occur to meat che time that we were not all Americans. It occurs to me now thet ve were ail refugees. The man who bore the tide Chiel of Protocol was an unslaried palitical appointee: the Hon~ lorable Richard C. Patterson, Jens former Ambussidor to Yugoslavia, Guatemala, and SwiverlandUncle Dick to. my friend the son of the mayor. Not only did he have no duties; he eid not have an fice. He was 2 Tie izenial and poite man, but ie wes eek : ard when, on the odd impulse, he decided to come to work. For a while, Jon these occasions, we adhered to the fiction that the litle lounge where the Guides assembled was his office, and when he came we went into the cafe teria for as long ae we could stand ie Buc Ambasnder Paterson was too Ind a man tallow this once he found that he was subjecting us to inconve= rience, and he asked for alte screen to put around one of the desks in the room, 30 that_he could have some privacy. But this was so embarrassing kn idea that we never got him one. Our real ose wat sh and sweeteterpered man from the North Shore of Long Island, He was a gead- tute of Yale and the son of an old aly e jo Me. Moses. He drank quite bitin Ske l 2 way that was entirely attractive, He was very loyal to us and rather con- yap et ey tempruous of the Fair except for the Spanish Pion, Once, when the et ees vest Relations Department of the is pa aah General Electric Pavilion complained The chair Peston tdTHE NEW YORKER, 167 about me, he wrote back a note that said simply, “George can do no Tere were others, There was a Now, La Quinta Luxury worn from 3 Plh piney family [in tum 4 Pati pisely foe ||| AND a Pete Dyedeslgned Golf Coursl For years La Cult iy, aman who ad forty teen wi] as proved gracious Wing for the scrminating- Now, the State Department, and. Guides| forthe apotsenthuslast, ts six championship tenis courts wih every so of unimportant socal) ae Jed by eehalengng Pete Dye and political connection. But the stars olf course. Truly the best ofall worlds. Es al Of our office, the two Officers who defined the purpose of our operation, were Major Selma Herbert, who ae ; a ened fe Quint: been Cuban Ambassador to London ERE ATEMER SY, ee afer ei ng ey epee ele pe ne ir'ee bmpochie's pom, Re eee gel en Sarr eae dope lor ROE ho a oo ae oe pene de, Mae Haken pas oo down eda nee Pica ot tee eet ge Fert wore opal shoes Dr, Men fees "were Mente Ge ih he Sanlu bata t ct Sore sets Sonnet ee Soe eee ae 2 Haber ced De Meee ease For y Be nie cadena Classic Quartz eaeee as aeael : ‘The most memorable day I spent at | eee the Ba nae are ee Rae het ened ee rege Soyer ree earapaneas heats ool panama aaa Rortace hee The Chit ba conc eae ste jaseed feet al coe eee ee ahaa Wetad en's Giese Ines tinge eve lag Wee them everywhere, The day stretched Sey cass tog they Hed ercything ey ete endl Dr Mls te calms Weal wre Uetok ste Goce Moe Ger tee ns ete Fasreneliras nan oa iors awed oe ae uae cues Ree Ieevmove Te ae ae ey escape cela Feion, The capes dec ioe 2 eee oy eee at oa aeNOVEMBER I7, 1980. pease oman ae are ease Give the git eet eo eoaare re | netomat that turns gn fontinued. What I remember is Dr. |g) crewneck c2ble, Hanctremed in . Seca ea ee Senne Mee te eae Sere eee SAS are areca’ monuiouts ron |lover and waved and called “Goo-bye! | Riasecres lew Se eH || Bectse fe was ao tate Took a eax sepomenmes merase SSS. Hock to the cy with Dr. Mendosa me amblerer erie si WUsally, T dedined to go wit Dr. Besar caaige |[Mendora, because he always insised sce duet fatiar easier |lon paying, but ix seemed right to go, Sierra nmesee [vi him that nigh. Sometimes, en Simeone sai, I turned Dre Mendoca Toto 2 ‘wen ey rains ror cute father: Sometimes, for instance, I sid ‘rts wot oars |lsomething in the way I vsed to say 8 Tea [thing to my father—to provoke a tory, There were favorite stories 1 like’ vo hear Drs Mendoza tel. His roice had all the time inthe world znd gentleness that couldn’ make dee eae tintions: In some dep way, he waned ‘eonscempcmtsnseec, marten only to pla, fForstorenames wrte scioeaeaomgia amas ||" eAR, theres the Tower of Light” || Frankt savage In yy epee te ae toe |HT said as we left the Fairgrounds. 17 Eas 37tn Street. N.Y. 0016 i at eats Wee aus || “The Tower of Light” Dr. Me Sgectesmegeinitemineetn lla eid, “The ‘Tower of Light RIE Se IWhhen I first came to the Fair, before maloteeset ne lene Fair was built, when ie was only wmciacs ro ike iden of the Fal, we used to have ectngs with Mr. Moses, They were frery serious, those meetings, 1 have igewasimtin ae cadvrenn wag |fatended other meetings ny fe, but epi eastern [none were so serious as thse, Lt ‘Maat mci’) [Nfe~ Noes had great hopes for the [Tower of Light. ft was gring tobe a eerie Meatheral of light” They said that, een RCN lover and over. That and trom Beston vane Mo Washington. Tt was to bes cathe- reat tne ral you could se from Boson to Washington —the beam of light. But fe didn't work out. There must be eome reason, You can't cee eeept in JOucens" ‘What the Fair was: The F oo sll. Te was just ay. Wono's Fain HAT was the Faie? Ie was the ‘world of television but taken se= ciously. A serious tone of voice. That jwas what remained from the previous lorthodoxy—the booming voice. At the IFair, one could see the world of telev Jon impersonating the world of his Jory. Te was the world of television, | IPE csowbere Color cation $3. love they woulda’ let you in on the ‘sebel Brass Furniture, nc. Foam re i ee PP This was what it was ike when theTHENEW YORKER Sod Was wl i ies noe sy How much love fee rg fee tee dn cacls Cee ert tl times stronger than man, they eee tte ‘What is 0 defeating is this everlast sled eta Sop ing good-ipiritedners the application Peete ‘of enthusiasm against loneliness. The Peseta ent rena ‘expression ofthe force that seeks to go eeu rs with the erain—actally to become ae nea the grains, everastingly, a smile ere teen ay But the smile is «ie, and it makes ee aera Father Gnome and Mother Slane as eerie people glum. And the ghimness th Howe aginst the grin, feng core fident of its hit of tevth: that there Fe ine the emi In ou time, nearly all set hat been made from glimness and has had very litle power, because it feeds on this tiny Bit of truth: that there tr ele i these Ws so litle to feed on. ‘That ltd bic of cruth. Feed on it only and you go mad, Nourished by just that litle truth, how can you have strength enough to resist your enemies? ‘The How lonely the white men are [25 Scent rabies oy ana, Nears se ig ate ste yess at wwii the: gral noe tan they’ being thereby to dye thir ba greet They thought they would have both Ghee er oc eee they Ener Risto a the edge, b> riba? ad tenes ot ete Be Tange to children, andthe edge belongs to adolescens, 0 they have either. Wav they have i kind of superior whining, and the one feed they have bein able to make tse of the freedom carved out by certain ade conan So thie what they inhabit ow ay ace where th rae of edge by rein hele whinge Georges Briard. | Something heppetel What en Because your guests deserve it. pote eatin ascites divorce 4 erga) sey oir ll their readers abut ther divorces Tn newspapers. In columns in newspa- : pers Spec clams devoed tthe Personal papers of literary men. One Feray man who reviews books wrote, in eeviewing a oly of Roki, that he lal eave Rad db by ae bas sae iy eareeniel) Y baled tae be dare elisa book by Ruskin, This man very en vores aout hifi if Tshea fol? Nov Abvluely not. He Pap dria 2 herve New NY 000 XeLOUIS LOURIOUX ATLEASTONCE IN YOUR LIFE. BN Ne NITE Os cect [ee ns iy tts eed Eine te ote eee NOVEMBER 17, 1980 is doing what ie appropri, He is following + sound inwinet. Testint is so importane. You have to go withthe st feling. The get foling is that thir orld wot lew thas Raskin, The get fecling i that there isn't any 18d © support Ruskin. The two grits feftare the pd of coorrens saccea— the grid of two hundred eulion—and the ing, tiny Raby grid of you and me an baby and baby problems and ry problems and your problems and. con we ed cies tt et baby arab gether? 3nd comfort? What is comfort? I's fous. You bring this geld together with that grid, ou gt the images to verip, ad suddenly things havea bit of focus, as n-acertin sort of 33-mm. cee Wher il ete gether? The two grits You and me by and baby’s problem breathing and the grid of (wo hundred nln Tes such «comfort, Sov a comfort when the literary man who knows no Ruskin tells us how it feels in his marriage when a fiend brings home a pretty young girl. Ard its comfort then 2 comedienne whom we know, whom we love, whom we've known Tor years and years, whom we've loved for yeas and years tells ws that there hasbeen a deg problem in her fay. Suddenly, the grids merge. You and te ad baby ad drugs together onthe grid of two hundred milion. [es so fncimate, Tes lke waking up with a fiend But jst for a minute Disny EXCERPT froma diay, 197 When I was very young—four years old, that is, and ve—it was my habit inthe late sAernoon to stand at 3 Window at the east end of the living oom of ‘my family’s house, in Cos Cob, Connecticu, and wait for my father to come into my view. My Fae ther commuted on the New Haven Railroad in those days, and. walked home fram the station. When I spotted him, T waved. I usually saw him before he aw me, because my eyesight was much better than his. When he saw me, he waved back and walked (I believe) ata faster pace until he was at Jour door. Once inside, he pot dovn the bundle af newspapers he carried under his arm (my father, 2 newspa- perman, brought home all three even- Ing newspapers and, often, one oF two lof the morning papers as well), and hugged my mother. ‘Then he took his fedora hat off his head and pu it on Te was assumed that I would have aTHE NEW YORKER fedors hat of my own by the time 1 vas weve years oll. My father ad Tad his frat fedora hat atthe age of , but he sad he recognized that the circumstances of his bringing wp tad been differen Irom the Cieume stances of mine (it was his opinion that his mother, ny grandmother, had teen excenively sri in the mater of rem), and he would not inst on frything inappropriate or embarrase- ing. He aid that probably would not te necessary forme to wear Kid gloves dhring the day ever. But certainly, he ss the ca fap when ung man I wosld go on the New Haven Raroad wo New York City, t would be necesary for me to weat 2 fedora hat. T have, in fay worm a fedora hat, but lroniealy. Irony he secped inte the fl af any feds ha Have ever owned-—aot ou of any wish of mine hot ott of censity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would ea through my feed and Kl me. L was born into the ‘pper middle clas in 1943, and one ef Ue strange turns my life has taken i this Twas taught by my parens to believe that the teadional manners Gf the High bourgeoisie, properly ac quired, would. give me a certain nity, which would protect on from embarassment. Tr hae torn out that Tam able to do lent anything but act according tothe moder ths b= eure I deeply believe that those modes se sfoned with sn embarracmen so porwerul that it can Kil. Ie turns ot She ohile T apn at heme tn many fxrange places T am not fre cven Wise the territory Twas expected to Inhabit efforesly. To wear fedora, TTinust fs torre it out shape 6 that iecan be cleaned of the embatase ~Gronce W. 8.1 ow, Je Consreriox The title of a biography of thet fighter, EL Cerdabven, written by Larry Colins and Dominigse Lapierre, should have been listed “Or Til Dres, You ia “Mourning” yesterday eather than "Or Ti Dron You the Mersing a repro 1m Diego Union Not if big sales are any object, ITS ABOUT TIME DEPARTMENT [ram Folio, proorem guide of WBAT) 9.00" seu ‘On Qciaber 4, 1957 the Soviet thst Sputaik inte space. Today th Years and ten days later we present SF radio. programming. around mes of ni yy The Magic of Daneing Di: eorecmemter ttc? roa Discover the heart of France and the glorious food and wines ‘of Champagne or Chablis from the tranquil intimacy ofa iver barge. 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