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LoYaNGELES TIMES F11" WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1994 GINSBERG: The Poet Is the Subject of a Documentary Laughlin Twist Shout among rides within dome' Continued from Fl Macedonians are arguing about who owns the word Macedonia and think Macedonian is a word with an intrinsic essence that must be monopolized by one side or another. Historically, the word god has always functioned in a similar way. People are willing to kill for their word image of god, and use the word as an excuse for mass murder. Qr What does that word mean to you? IA: Old no-bo daddy on high-nobody's daddy on high. That's William Blake's phrase.

He said that for centuries man has been asleep under the guidance of old no-bo daddy, trying to substitute some abstract concept of a god who's outside everything rather than develop his own awareness. Man refuses responsibility for his own creation of the nuclear bomb, and, acts as if it was something giyen from above. "I didn't do it, I swear it crawled into my hand." What's been the great achievement of the American counterculture in the 20th Century? As It altered mainstream culture remain completely intact. The emotions remain in the body, the mind and the heart, and they often come out in dreams. Why can't we live those dreams more fully? Fear of the rejection that might come if we show our sensitivity, vulnerability and funkiness.

Walt Whitman addressed this when he said, "I celebrate myself and sing myself that's a song of self-acceptance, and there aren't many models of self-acceptance around. As far as the flaws we see in ourselves that we struggle to hide from others, I believe in letting your neurosis be your style, which is a Buddhist notion of turning waste into treasure. How would you explain the concept of reality? If you stub your foot against the desk, it hurts that's reality. At the same time, the hurt is impermanent in 100 years your body and the desk will be gone and ultimately it's all a dream, so reality has no hell to pay nor heaven to reward. Therefore you're completely free, as in a dream.

completely and introduced several bodies of thought that have never lost their relevance. Beginning in the '40s, Kerouac, Burroughs and myself became interested in the operation of consciousness and began experimenting with psychotherapy, psychedelics, Eastern philosophy, art and ideas about the alchemy of the word that were first introduced by Rimbaud. We think in terms of montage, collage, discontinuity and jump cut, and the great monuments of writingPounds' "Cantos," Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues," William Carlos Williams "Patterson" have that quality of montage. I remember Bob Dylan telling me that Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues" inspired him to become a poet, and when I asked him why, he said because it was the first book that spoke to him in his own language-American. What was the great failure of the counterculture? Once when Kerouac was high on psychedelics with Timothy Leary, he looked out the window and said, "Walking on water wasn't built in a day." Our goal was to save the planet and alter human consciousness.

That will take a long time, if it happens at all. Looking back on Kerouac's life, do you consider it a tragic one? No he did more in one-lifetime than most people do in 10. And remember, he had alcoholism, which is an illness, and that contributed to the sadness that came toward the end of his life. I think everybody gets unhappy in the final 10 years of their life, though, and the unhappiness runs deep because you realize you're gonna die. I have diabetes and high blood pressure, I can't eat meat and I can hardly get it up despite that, erotic desire never fades.

Having crushes, seeing some brilliant face in the crowd, your heart melting that's always there. The essential theme of all your poetry has been love. Why does love die? I don't think love dies it just gets buried under bad experience and incommunicability, or people go mad, suffer money woes, get caught up in a war. But if you look to your dreams, you'll find the original love tears, throbs and grief of the early Pueblo people of the Southwest. Electronic games are offered in; the Canyon Arcade, while souven- I irs and gifts are available at the' Canyon Trading Post.

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In an incredible coup, Letter-man's mom even scored an interview in Lillehammer with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. She followed the script by asking the First Lady if she or the President could do something about the speed limit in Connecticut, where Letterman lives. Earlier, Letterman got his own scoop when breaking the news that "the U.S. Olympic Committee worked out a deal so the Menendez brothers can compete in the bobsled." If it were true, CBS would spritz the event with commercials and drag it out for hours. Is the coverage really that frustrating? Yup.

of Caballe prano's colleagues: tenors Placido Domingo and Jose" Carreras, the retired Dame Joan Sutherland and American soprano Cheryl Studer. Their comments are full of praise for Caballe" the artist, but also indicate her human side. Sutherland, for instance, tells about the time Caballe" played hooky from opera rehearsals in Chicago to visit her husband, tenor Bernabe" Marti, then appearing in "Norma" with Sutherland, in Philadelphia. Also shown is the duet video Caballe" made with her "new friend" (in 1987), the late rock singer Freddie Mercury. ManHHaHaHaKl 3 music to the replays and hounding Jansen, his coach and family for explanations you'd have thought he let down the entire United States by briefly slipping on the ice.

Prior to Lillehammer, relative-. ly few Americans knew of Jansen. Now the nation was being implored to wear a black armband and begin a period of national mourning. With so many things in the United States and around the world to get depressed about, however, it's hard to find room for a skater who didn't get his medal. So get a life here.

That's what Charles Kuralt seemed to be saying in a sweet feature that evening celebrating Olympians who hadn't lived up to expectations. "Don't feel so bad," he said. In the advice category, David Letterman had some later that evening for his white-haired mom, Vital Life, Art portion of "Casta diva," from "Norma" (filmed in Orange, France, in 1974), the very end of "Salome" and the Spanish-Catalan songs, the last performed specifically for this show in a private recital in London, with pianist Manuel Burgueras. Caballe" is also shown in rehearsal, and while teaching; she reminisces, for the camera, briefly, and later visits her ranch outside Barcelona. In a gimmicky, eerie, yet impressive closer to the show, she sings an aria 'from Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" in the Tower of London.

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But first hockey results, a Tonya Harding update, a commercial break, a return to the luge. More yadda yadda yadda. Then finally, after CBS has stretched this out like a marathon taffy pull, Jansen skated. By now, surely everyone who cares even a whit knows that Jansen the 500-meter world record-holder who had failed to capture a medal in three previous Olympics suffered a slip on Monday that dropped him to eighth, costing him a medal. That was a shame.

Yet talk about your overreac-tion. From that night's coverage-CBS adding groaning funereal TV REVIEW A Look at the By DANIEL CARIAGA TIMES MUSIC WRITER LL A diva in full sail" is host Melvyn Bragg char- of soprano Montserrat subject of a "South Bank" show on Bravo cable tonight at 6:30. The Spanish singer, who will be 61 in April, may not consistently live up to that description these days, but during this hourlong profile she does sing beautifully for a few minutes in a recent taped London performance of Rossini's "II Viaggio a Reims." The singing itself proves the most engaging feature of this presentation. In medium-length excerpts of operatic arias and duets and art-songs by Bellini, Richard Strauss, Mompou, Serrano and Turina (among others), the scope of Cabalte's gifts and achievement over a four-decade career is indicated and documented. Particularly revelatory are a 6 Performances FjBb-18-27 only Avery BrooKS in Paul Robeson kr Ptiilttp Ktytt Own Starring Emit Scott Harold Scott Remaining lixJWtof It tmk nty at B.O.om hour Mm perl, cash only WESTWOOD PLAYHOUSE Charge (310) 20V6454TWchf SOO-233-3123 1lHrrfl I rCPMTE AVE- parking 12 Friday, February 18 SKulnhi Mmn, 1150 Horvod Uot.

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Yet after the break, it was not Moe but two Canadian skiers who viewers saw. They were followed by another commercial. Moe did not show up Qntil the start of the second hour. Soon it was also time for some tricky moves regarding another designated poster Olympian, U.S. speedskater Dan Jansen.

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