Word: bowles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American Citizens will get up from their couches and go to the bathroom. They will check dinner, wonder where the kids are, refill the bowl of Cheetos and talk about the baseball game. In Oakland, 2000 miles from the debates in St. Louis, they knows what's really important...
...like Conversation; in the astoundingly bare and mysterious French Window at Collioure, 1914; and so on to the palm tree that, like a firework in the garden, fills the window of Interior with an Egyptian Curtain, 1948, its explosive light seeming to cast an inky black shadow under the bowl of fruit. The room is culture; the window frames nature; it is a kind of picture-within-a-picture, another trope that Matisse was partial...
Though enchanting, Am I Not Your Girl is not completely a bowl of cherries. The instrumental arrangement of "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" is incongruous, But then so is the album. The requisite torch song, "Gloomy Sunday," is about suicide, and "How Insensitive" is a glacial ballad about those last beautiful moments of a relationship when you tear his heart into little pieces...
...youngest, most desperate cases. Gathering them together in another part of the compound, he feeds each one a spoonful of antidiarrhea medicine from a rusty thermos bottle. Every child under five receives a plastic bracelet, which entitles the wearer to a protein biscuit in addition to a bowl of gruel. The bands are color coded; blue for severely malnourished; red for those on the verge of death...
...then gaze over in Coach Joe Restic's office at the framed black-and-white portrait of the 1915 game: over 40,000 packed into Harvard Stadium (when it was a full "bowl" rather than the current horse shoe) with the simple inscription across the middle "Harvard 41, Yale 0." Now that's tradition...