Still they keep coming, comprehensive surveys of a performer or a composer and sundry collections of more questionable marketability.
Among the artists will be Chuck Mangione, Max Roach, Clark Terry and Jon Hendricks, along with the actors Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon, the television personality Bill Boggs, Mark Morganelli and his Jazz Forum All-Stars and Mr. Amram, performing on piano, French horn, flutes and sundry folk instruments from his own collection.
The collection, which includes letters to sundry readers, curiosity seekers, figures from the underground press, drug-rehab professionals interested in apomorphine and a woman he had never met who had proposed marriage (he is stern but not unkind), was made possible by the fact that Burroughs meticulously preserved carbon copies of virtually everything he sent out.
When I emptied the little green garbage box for the compost collection, combating as I did so sundry flies and quite a few maggots.
If the Metropolitan Museum of Art had not decided to display together the 34 paintings, 58 works on paper, two sculptures and sundry items including prints that make up its Picasso collection, some truths and questions that many would prefer to remain unspoken about the most important figure of 20th century Western art might not have been aired.
Ragtag collections of prostitutes and pimps, drug addicts and sundry urban nighthawks, the people who populate his plays were unusual theatrical subjects in their day, but were no less sympathetic for that.
It is unfortunate that this excellent show, drawn in the main from the Met's own collections, should be marred by the incongruous introduction of sundry pieces, such as a Cypriot sculpture of the third century B.C., a Germanic champlevé enamel plaque of the late 12th-century A.D. with Saint John the Evangelist or an Iranian drawing of the 17th century.
"I wanted my collection to do the same thing, to show the various and sundry technological improvements in the automobile.
It works a treat as all and sundry are hoodwinked.
