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...invention stop oozing about 40 years ago, but the repetition of his stock in trade (the nudes with drawers and lip sofas, burning giraffes and lanky, deliquescent women, the double-image paintings of landscape becoming figure in the manner of 16th century puzzle pictures) be came a bore. Of his latest work, with its grand claims to incarnate everything from the secrets of the DNA molecule to Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty, the less said the better. If these big, greasily executed machines show anything, it is that Dali's talent was not, after all, a renewable resource...
Aside from a loss in the third position, where senior John Stubbs was edged, 3-1, the racquetmen bore down and came up winners...
...wife Jo (Frances Conroy) stops him, however, with a game of her own. One by one she tells their friends exactly who and what they are: Fred is a crude redneck, and Carol is his latest bimbo; Edgar is a spiritual cripple, and his wife Lucinda is an irritating bore. But everyone forgives Jo because she is visibly dying of cancer and is just radiating a part of her own intense pain. Jokes Edgar: "Any well-stocked larder should have ridicule and contempt...
...round in Iowa. The two men benefited from the upset factor: the press loves to champion an underdog who comes out on top. A Carter or a Bush attracts the media because his pitch is geared toward images, which are easily captured on film, not specific issues that often bore and confuse voters who are not directly affected...
...some burlesque science fiction, the nation seems to have been injected with a truth serum designed to make people bore one another to death; it has given them a compulsion to confide embarrassing intimacies, has led them on to endless emotional ostentations, as if, as Saul Bellow once wrote, "to keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." A man sits down at a New Jersey dinner party, beside a woman he met half an hour before, and hears in elaborately explicit detail from soup through coffee, how the woman and her husband managed to conquer their sexual incompatibility with...