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...with anyone who each year must watch 300 new movies, many of them junk. This may explain why Auntie Lee's Meat Pies, Lucky Stiff, Homer & Eddie and Closet Land -- films that barely achieved theatrical release -- are among the targets of Medved's dudgeon. It also leads him to catalog, in avid detail, outrages of manners in the movies. Who else would think to tabulate recent films with scenes of vomiting (36) or urination...
...humiliating irony for the company that invented such American-style trademarks as national merchandising, catalog shopping and even store-wide sales was that it was better at selling stocks, bonds, credit cards and insurance policies than it was at satisfying its core retail customers. Such financial ventures as its Coldwell Banker real estate unit, Allstate Insurance, Discover credit cards and Dean Witter are currently generating 90% of Sears' earnings, while income from its 860 retail stores has declined 33% this year. Rather than help Sears' growth, most analysts believe, the financial units only subsidized its failure to compete during...
Harvard currently has only four tenured Latino faculty members. No courses are offered that deal significantly with the experience of Hispanic-Americans in U.S. politics, society or history. Sure, class offerings that deal with Latin America are already in the course catalog, but Raza and La O members have specifically expressed concern for the lack of Mexican-American and Puerto Rican-related courses...
...last comparable Matisse show was organized in 1970 by Pierre Schneider in Paris, to mark the artist's centenary. It contained 250 works, and its catalog weighed 2 lbs. It seemed, at the time, exhaustive. This one has rather more than 400 works, and its catalog tips the kitchen scales at 5 lbs. 7 oz., outweighing even MOMA's Picasso catalog by 11 oz. It isn't a show to approach casually, even if the coming box-office jam allowed it. But Elderfield's panorama of Matisse's achievement is so exhilarating, so full of rapturous encounters with...
...Elderfield points out in a catalog essay, Matisse's luck with the critics has always been peculiar. At the outset, part of the tiny modern-art public in Paris thought his work incoherent, ugly. Others, like Gauguin's friend Maurice Denis, praised its absolutist devotion to "painting in itself, the pure act of painting." But there was never a shortage of critics who saw Matisse as a kind of magisterial lightweight. "It is a modiste's taste," wrote the poet Andre Salmon in 1912, "whose love of color equals the love of chiffon...