Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment of existentialism, with its pervasive sense of harsh meagerness, its starting from zero, its purging of conventional "humanism" from the human image. One almost forgets, at this range, what a widespread set of conventions it produced in painting and sculpture. Yet there they all are: the early Bernard Buffets, gray, spiky still lifes, mournful and oppressively style-ridden; the even earlier works of a virtually forgotten artist, Francis Gruber, whose ravaged landscapes and etiolated figures à la Jacques Callot seem to have given the much slicker Buffet most of his ideas. In sculpture there were the post-Hiroshima-style...
They retreated to one of the buffet tables, but the waitress there told them to go to hell...
...drank gin. They got enmeshed in countless conversations about generalities, and small-talked with a vengeance. They chatted with the models and they chatted about the Vineyard. They admitted that Chinese bronzes had changed their young lives so as not to appear boorish. The Driver told someone at the buffet that only cars and art made life worth living, and on the whole he thought that art was probably easier to take care of. As the sun set over Pei's masterpiece, they walked out to the car in the company of a young couple from Brookline all maligned Pissarro...
...Montauk Community Church, they were married. Tiegs' jungle jaunt had also turned her into an elephant aficionado, and at the wedding reception, held beneath a vast white tent on the rugged cliffs of Montauk, it was evident that the beauty had not forgotten her beast. Over the buffet siding of oysters, mussels and crab fingers stood a glistening ice sculpture-of an elephant...
...million rainbow-colored fireworks flashed across the night sky, making a whistling sound like the warbling of nightingales. A crowd of 20,000 feasted on mutton, turkey and Arabian specialties, such as tabbouleh, spread on long buffet tables set up in the city streets. A good time was had, though perhaps not by all. Following strict Bedouin tradition, Bride Salama was cloistered in her room the entire seven days and missed her own wedding celebration...