FILMS BY HARUN FAROCKI The paradox is that Farocki is probably more important as a writer than as a filmmaker, that his films are more written about than seen, and that instead of being a failing, this actually underlines his significance to the cinema today and his considerable role in the contemporary political avant-garde. . […]
Tag: Vol. 21 No. 18
Issue of Feb. 13 – 19, 1992
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Our Ill-Equipped Critics
To the editors: After reading Bill Wyman’s umpteenth lame attack on the band I’m in [“Pop ’91,” January 17], I’m reminded of some wise words from a local artist concerning critics in general and one in particular–“Fuck them, they’re just eunuchs in a whorehouse.” Lenny Pincus Chicago PS: Apologies to Jae, Greg, Mark, Dan, Don, […]
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Lighten Up
To the editors: For Diana Slickman of W. Winona [Letters, January 24]. Let me be the first to tell you to lighten up and get a life in which humor and satire can make your daily routine more than merely dreary and confrontational. I personally thought if anyone was demeaned in that article, it was […]
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Gay Male With Attitude
THE FINAL PRODUCT D. Travers Scott at Club Lower Links D. Travers Scott’s performance last Saturday at Club Lower Links took the more nightmarish gay male stereotypical behavior–anonymous sex, sadism and masochism, transvestism, and even serial killing–gave them a lick, and spit on them. It wasn’t a rant or a tantrum. Scott seems remarkably free […]
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Our Piece-Keeping Aldermen
To the editors: Wanted to let you know that I, like the majority of Chicagoans, appreciated David K. Nelson’s work [December 20] for what it was–political satire. When Chicago’s aldermen, especially those brandishing firearms at public meetings, become free from the public ridicule they so strongly deserve, the city’s budget problems will become trivial to […]
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Dave Liebman
Almost 20 years ago, Dave Liebman laid down his tenor saxophone to concentrate solely on the soprano, and to this day he remains one of the three definitive modern voices on that instrument. (Wayne Shorter. Steve Lacy.) Few have been able to find the full range of the soprano, to maintain its sinewy strength while […]
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On Exhibit: birds captured in the wild
If the curse of portrait painters is human vanity, the curse of wildlife artists is verisimilitude. Though a wildlife artist will not become popular unless his work is aesthetically appealing, it will also never be respected unless it’s scientifically accurate. In this century no one has done more to improve wildlife painting on both counts–and […]
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Distasteful Illustrations
To the editors: Although I don’t subscribe to the Reader, nor am I a regular reader of the Reader, I could not help but take an interest to your depiction of the alderman Dorothy Tillman [December 20]. Yes, Mr. Nelson it is true that she and many other public figures are likely to be constantly […]
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Macbeth
MACBETH Shakespeare Repertory at the Ruth Page Theatre There’s no denying that the visual imagery in Shakespeare Repertory’s Macbeth is gorgeous: The pile of golden autumn leaves in one downstage corner, with more leaves drifting down at intervals, glowing in their individual spotlight. The rain shower of real water streaming from above and trickling down […]
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Holmes Brothers: an ecstatic puch to the soul
About midway through the Holmes Brothers’ opening set at B.L.U.E.S. a man shouted from the audience, “Where you guys from?” “New York,” answered guitarist Wendell Holmes, adding that he and his brother had originally hailed from Virginia. But the man who’d asked wasn’t really looking for that kind of answer; you could tell by his […]
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Wrong Way Reader
To the editors: Re: Tillman (?) cartoon [December 20]. It is abundantly clear now why you always had an inverted “R” in your paper title. You are going the wrong way to allow anybody to distort their inverted sickness on a society that might read your paper. Yes it is regurgative. I wonder what the […]
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Reading: The Feminine Mistake
I realized that Gloria Steinem’s new book, Revolution From Within, was not merely bad but irredeemably bad when she let slip, about two-thirds of the way through, that she was in the habit of conversing with the liver spots on her hands. I had gotten used to this kind of loopiness, all too typical of […]
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Cops on Trial
Anyone troubled that police commander Jon Burge stands on the brink of disgrace–and trust us that thousands of officers are–is apt to believe the Reader has plenty to answer for. Last Monday a Police Board hearing began at the Dirksen Federal Building to decide whether Burge and two detectives should be drummed from the force. […]
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Beating in the Genes
To the editors: Kitry Krause’s article, “Men Who Beat Women” (Reader, January 10) inadvertently showed that psychologists who “treat” such men have little real understanding of the problem. There is empirical evidence that the male urge towards dominance behavior (which is what predatory violence is really all about) is innate rather than learned. Numerous mothers […]
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Mose Vinson
Memphis pianist Mose Vinson has lived the majority of his life as one of that city’s best kept secrets. Lithe enough on the keyboard to earn himself the nickname “Boogie” and famous for his renditions of the standard “44 Blues,” Vinson is also a deeply introspective stylist, capable of both exhilaration and profoundly moving balladry. […]