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Even if you didn't know that John started buying pictures after he stopped drinking, you might figure it out from the pictures. They suggest the mental climate of a man cleaning up his act. The old John was a circus clown shot out of his own cannon, so you'd expect his collection to have more of the orangutan behavior and chili-pepper colors you get from, say, David La Chappelle, the celebrity photographer who pinwheeled around John three years ago. You do find some of that in the Polaroid self-portraits Lucas Samaras made in the 1970s, when...
...Even if you didn't know that John started buying pictures after he stopped drinking, you might figure it out from the pictures. They suggest the mental climate of a man cleaning up his act. The old John was a circus clown shot out of his own cannon, so you'd expect his collection to have more of the orangutan behavior and chili-pepper colors you get from, say, David La Chappelle, the celebrity photographer who pinwheeled around John three years ago. You do find some of that in the Polaroid self-portraits Lucas Samaras made in the 1970s, when...
...head. Would you rather be rich or pretty? Happy or famous? Is it better to be good or to be smart? For a while this race looked like a clean choice, more government or lower taxes, the Tin Man or the Scarecrow, the teacher's pet or the class clown. But with each freshly deadlocked poll, it is looking less like a clear choice than a hard one. And last week it became a real one as well, when voters finally got to watch Al Gore and George W. Bush, naked on the same stage, and come to grips with...
...head. Would you rather be rich or pretty? Happy or famous? Is it better to be good or to be smart? For a while this race looked like a clean choice, more government or lower taxes, the Tin Man or the Scarecrow, the teacher's pet or the class clown. But with each freshly deadlocked poll, it is looking less like a clear choice than a hard one. And last week it became a real one as well, when voters finally got to watch Al Gore and George W. Bush, naked on the same stage, and come to grips with...
...everything you could possibly want, people can't do enough for you. The rich are showered with lovely gifts; the poor scrape hard for bus fare. A Park Avenue divorce case is fought by platoons of talented lawyers; a man up for murder in Texas is represented by a clown in a green polyester suit. The hemorrhoids of the wealthy are treated like diamonds, while the poor lie gasping in hospital hallways. The guiding principle of American life is: don't dare not have money...