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C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills was the caustic critic of an America far removed from the tree-lined streets of W. Lloyd Warner’s “Yankee City.” His world was metropolitan, seen through the grey haze of the 1930’s; and unlike Warner’s six classes, he … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Colville, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, C. Wright Mills, Jack Levine painter, W. Lloyd Warner
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say look: what’s that sound?
To begin with, the Structural Linguists concern themselves only with the spoken language. The generally low esteem with which they regard writing derives in part from the statistic that only about five per cent of the of the world’s approximately … Continue reading
nostalgic about the fifties
Must we be nostalgic about the fifties? Color the decade green, the color of chlorophyll; sprinkle with freckles, like Howdy Doody; add a smear of red lipstick, and put it in a sack. What do you get? An Edsel. Thinking … Continue reading
snap up the bargains: the price is slight
You can think of it as a country fair, a high end flea market, a tombola. There is so much art work out in the hands of collectors that these type of circus events are required as another outlet to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Calder, alexander calder BMW, Anish Kapoor, Bing Crosby, Elizabeth Taylor Collection, elizabeth taylor jewelry, European Fine art fair, Gerrit Dou, Herve Poulain art car, Lucille Ball, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Michael Ayrton, paul gauguin still life 1917, Tefaf Maastricht, Thorstein Veblen, Westminster Kennels
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java jive
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) a couple of days ago, there was a front page story on the Java Jive, the famous old roadside “giant teapot’ monument architecture on south tacoma way in tacoma. it’s a a weird strange old … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged art chantry, Bing Crosby, bing crosby tacoma, gonzaga university, gonzaga university bing crosby, java jive, Nirvana, spanish castle ballroom, tacoma building code, tacoma building code authorities, the sonics, the ventures, the wailers
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cartooning weatherman
from the dark, moody, bipolar corner of the nation… by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): The northwest has contributed many wonderous things to world culture. from the dark moody bipolar corner of the nation came such tantalizing creations as the flying … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, baskin and robbins, Bing Crosby, bob cramm, bob hale, bob hale weatherman, cartooning weatherman, dale chihuly, dick brown, graphic design, irwin caplan, irwin kaplan, jesse marinoff reyes, mits katayama, Nirvana, norman hathaway, paul whiteman, stan boreson, Ted Bundy, the chalk talk stunt
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tee it up: triple bogey on consumption
Throughout history, people have often been idle, and they have always had holidays. Even in the darkest periods of the Dark Ages, the rich hunted, jousted, sang, danced and made love. The peasants gorged, got drunk and cavorted. Yet, true … Continue reading
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Tagged baggar vance, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, charles lees, che guevara, david allen painting, Dean Martin, earl Woods, F.Scott Fitgerald, Fidel Castro, j.f. abbott, joseph heath, pierre bourdieu, Robert Redford, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tiger Woods, william inglis
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OH DEMON ALCOHOL: STRAIGHT UP
Here’s a story about a sinner, He used to be a winner who enjoyed a life of prominence and position, But the pressures at the office and his socialite engagements, And his selfish wife’s fanatical ambition, It turned him to … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Wilder, Bing Crosby, Blake Edwards, Dudley Moore, Edward Copeland, Edwin S. Porter, Frank Sinatra, Fred Topel, Grace Kelly, Hays Commission, Jack Lemmon, Jack London, Jackie Gleason, James Cagney, Lee Remick, Nicholas Cage, Norman K. Denzin, Peter Mullan, Ray Davies, Ray Milland, Robert Hays, Steven Porter, Susan Hayward, W.C. Fields, Walter Matthau, William J. Felchner
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