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“‘Mailer on Picasso’ an Absorbing Program.” Article by Frazier Moore. AP wire story, 28 February. Report on a TV interview Mailer did with Melvyn Bragg on Picasso and television. He says that Picasso was “far and away the greatest artist of the 20th century.” Of TV, he says: “I have a kind of negative respect for television. I think it’s got an enormous power to encourage entropy in people: Their forms just dissolve into lesser forms, until we all end up in some vast porridge.”