10cc: How Dare You!
Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, March 1976
In the February Esquire, Douglas Davis discusses the new meaning the word "tough" has taken on in photographic circles: "It has come to mean (particularly in the recent visual arts) a work that defies the expectations of its audience yet, in the deepest sense, serves that audience.
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