Dept. of taking all the fun out of life. “Couch potatoes especially should avoid sitting in the same position for long periods,” advises Dr. Craig Tokowitz of the Illinois Masonic Medical Center. “They should by all means not sit in overstuffed furniture because it doesn’t offer the back any support.” Accountability for architects. Preservation architect […]
Tag: Vol. 17 No. 14
Issue of Jan. 21 – 27, 1988
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Feedback
To the editors: Thanks for characterizing [“An Embarrassment of Magazines,” Frieda Madland, December 25] my article in Chicago Life on pornography and the law as a “superb piece.” I’m very flattered. It’s nice to know that someone was reading! Nancy Albert Evanston
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Chantal Akerman’s greatest film to date–made in 1975, and running 198 minutes–is one of those lucid puzzlers that may drive you up the wall, but will keep you thinking about it for days and weeks afterward. Delphine Seyrig, in one of her greatest performances, plays the eponymous lead, a Belgian woman obsessed with performing her […]
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Class Encounters, Real-Life Division
To the editors: [Re: “Class Encounters,” by Henry Sheehan, January 8.] I thought your readers might be interested in this story concerning the filming of Steven Spielberg’s new movie, Batteries Not Included. This movie was filmed on a vacant lot in a burned-out area of Manhattan’s Lower East Side (Eighth Street between Avenues C and […]
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CAN Doings
To the editors: Ben Joravsky provided a great deal of information on and insight to the problem of Butternut Square in his November 20 article “Controversy on Clybourn: Attack of the Amazing Expanding Seven-Screen Theater” [Neighborhood News]. However, I would like to clarify a few issues. Phil Walters is reported as saying that the neighborhood […]
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Field & Street
Do fish think? Years ago, in a famous Second City routine, Severn Darden concluded that they do, but not fast enough. For most students of animal behavior, whether they are ethologists, psychologists, or evolutionary ecologists, the question itself is absurd. The dominant view in these sciences has been that animals are automata, genetically programmed robots […]
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Big Dreams
To the editors: About John Holden’s story on Emerald City [Neighborhood News, October 2] none can claim they didn’t know. “Dream no little dreams,” Mayor Carter Harrison told us back when this century was young. Martin Luther King heard him, and so, too, even earlier, did “great statesman” Vito Marzullo. The 60s were the last […]
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The Glass Menagerie
THE GLASS MENAGERIE Court Theatre When I was a student at Evanston Township High School, our drama class was assigned to read The Glass Menagerie and analyze its dramatic structure. Nearly the whole class, self-centered adolescents that we were, decided that the play’s antagonist, the figure against whom the protagonist must struggle to achieve his […]
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Opening up the Art Institute: to reach a student, teach a teacher
The reporter stands before a large, abstract painting by Jackson Pollock in the Art Institute and tries to make sense out of modern art. “It, uh, has a lot of colors,” he stammers, uncertain even just what all the colors are. “Well, that’s a start,” says Antonia Contro, an employee of the Art Institute and […]
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Further Adventures in Tot Control
To the editors: I am writing in reply to questions directed to me in the letter “Inquiring Moms Want to Know” (December 8). My criticism in the article “Tot Control” by Robert McClory (November 13) was not directed toward parents in their daily interactions with their children. It was directed toward a program, “Tuesday’s Child,” […]
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Pizza Man
It’s 1:30 in the afternoon and Nick Perrino and his son, Joe, are arguing about mozzarella cheese. Nick–a hardy 77 years old with a chest big as an institutional soup cauldron and an accent as thick as good spaghetti sauce–insists that cheese from a 20-pound block tastes different than cheese from a 5-pound block. Joe–trim […]
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Pop: I’m Bad, Therfore I Am
Rap music is populist postmodernism, self-referentiality you can dance to. And it’s driving the black middle class crazy with guilt and embarrassment.
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Rose’s Requiem
To the editors: The Reader and particularly Don Rose are to be commended for the excellent article in regard to Mayor Washington’s death [“The Day the Movement Died,” December 25]. Well constructed, not lengthy, principled–just great. Thank you. Rose Hoeckner N. Pine Grove
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Jerry’s Girls
JERRY’S GIRLS Rose Theatre at the Westin Hotel O’Hare It certainly sounds like a good idea. After all, Jerry Herman has written some of Broadway’s most memorable songs. A melody line springs to mind at the mere mention of such titles as “Hello, Dolly,” “Mame,” “If He Walked Into My Life,” and “I Am What […]