Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kienholz's best tableaus remind you what a long shadow Edward Hopper cast on American art. (It is a fair bet, though, that Hopper would have found Kienholz's raucousness and sexual satire detestable.) The Beanery, 1965, his famous reconstruction of a grungy West Hollywood bar--a little slice of hell, in fact, full of endless chatter, where all the clients' heads are clocks whose hands have stopped for eternity at 10 p.m.--has its affinities to Hopper's Nighthawks. Even the silver G.I.s in Kienholz's great antimilitarist piece, The Portable War Memorial, 1968, have a spectral Hopperish sadness...
...also standing pat. Big G took the first stab at price cuts two years ago, when it lowered the price of Wheaties, Cheerios and other cereals an average of 11%. It has gained market share. Says John McMillin, a food-industry analyst at Prudential Securities: "Post is making a bet that its competitors won't follow across the board and that it will regain some market share...
...flight, while substantially slowed, has not been reversed: in 1985, the year before the magnet plan began, the district was 73.6% minority; this year it is 75.9% minority. If nothing else, horrible school facilities have been replaced with nice new ones, and for some that is justification enough. "I bet a lot of kids in Kansas City are enjoying their childhood more now that they don't have to go to schools that smell," says author Jonathan Kozol, a longtime chronicler of educational injustice. "A good society would consider that money well spent...
...modern ideas of science and democracy. With the ultra-enthusiasm and nationalism, first developed in fighting the Americans forty-five years ago, still lingering vividly in people's psychological mind-sets, it would make perfect sense for North Korea, if things really went that bad, to place its last bet on extreme methods and launch (or continue, to be exact) an aggressive assault at all costs. Since the country's crippled economy would let down its people and make them starve anyway, why not just mess up everything and see what happens...
...November, one of our broadcasters, Mike O'Koren, told me he thought the Bulls could win 70. I bow to no one in my admiration for Michael, having coached him, but I didn't think the Bulls were all that deep. Plus, I've coached Rodman. So I bet O'Koren the biggest steak dinner in New Jersey that the Bulls wouldn't win 70. Guess I'm buying...