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...taste for Alex Katz's work is easily acquired, but is it obligatory? After reading what has been written about the Katz retrospective that opened last month at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, one would think so. The reviews and catalog essays thus far have favorably compared him with Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Jackson Pollock, Frederic Remington, Caspar David Friedrich, Cole Porter and Fred Astaire. "Katz's astonishing achievement," writes Curator Richard Marshall in the catalog, "is to have reconciled abstraction and realism in post-World War II America...
Consider some of the features offered on the major commercial computer networks. An on-line catalog called Comp-u-store lists discount prices of as much as 50% on 250,000 brand-name consumer items, from Hickory Farms sausages to Stanley Tools wrenches, and accepts electronic orders for any of them. A-Z Worldwide Hotel Index carries rates and descriptions of 25,000 domestic and international hotels. The Career Network holds 4,000 resumes and 3,000 job openings. Stockvue analyzes the performance of 3,100 common stocks. The IRS provides full-text electronic versions of its 75 most requested...
...wound in Harry's chest, the sardines that drop from between the legs of his philandering wife, the elephant that sits on his car -- or the wild cinematic verve that alchemizes each comic grotesquerie into images as vivid as a bad trip. But Bliss is no mere catalog of surrealist gross-outs. It yanks astonished laughs from the viewer to ease the way along a modern pilgrim's progress, one that finds salvation in the doggedness of obsessive love. Harry tracks his recalcitrant Honey to her home; when she rebuffs him, he plants honey-tree saplings that will take eight...
...even with such great variety not all student needs are or can be accomodated. If we skim through the course catalog we will not find much on, for example, modern history of the countries of the European periphery, such as Italy, Greece, or the Scandinavian countries. Moreover, the development of new fields within the discipline over the past three decades, notably social history and the history of women, has made complete coverage a Promethean task. Offerings from visiting professors are an insufficient solution. There is a point, then, in trying to be diverse, but diversity does not benefit students...
Many dealers across the country agree, noting that since 1980 their sales of home equipment have been rising about 30% to 65% a year. Sears, Roebuck, which advertised a primitive rowing machine in its 1920s mail-order catalogs, has devoted 31 pages of its fall-winter catalog to home-fitness devices. Says Richard Williford, a Sears spokesman: "This has been the strongest-selling merchandise in our sporting-goods department this year." Among the favored items, say equipment dealers: rowing machines ($75 to $3,000 for the computerized, gadget-laden models), stationary bicycles ($75 to $3,000), treadmills...