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Robert Crosby

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Structuralism and Levi-Strauss

IN THE LAST year or so Levi-Strauss has become a kind of cult. For Americans his structural anthropology is new,


Uncle Sam's Kids Hee-Hee, Bogeyman, and Honky

COMIC BOOKS were written for escapists. You had to be willing to go more than half-way to sweat through Superman's


The Gut-Bucket Sound And a Little Slice of Hick

SKEETER says he lives in Hall, Georgia, up near the Tennessee line. But Hall, Georgia isn't on any maps and


Russ Meyer: Mr. Tits' n' Ass Forsaking Pornography for Obscener Pastures

WHEN THE JUNK artists come out from under the table, traditionally insular critics are pressed into finding a new vocabulary.


At Emerson 105 China is Near

POLITICS, like everything else, begin at home. Bellocchio's China is Near proposes that politics never leave home either. A transitional


Nathaniel West Stranded Between "Art" and "Life"

LAST SPRING Norman Mailer gave a reading from a work in progress. Afterwards a student asked why, amidst our intolerable