Word: crumbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Miro was inspired by comic strips and folk scatology. And Philip Guston in the 1970s was able to attain his measure of greatness as a tragic painter only through a free, uncondescending use of motifs from George Herriman's great strip Krazy Kat and the underground comics of Robert Crumb. Nor can MOMA be accused of pandering to mass taste by exhibiting old comic strips, since what mass taste really likes these days is Van Gogh and Picasso...
...THAT CRUMB OFF THE TABLE. George Bush has still not forgiven Dick Gephardt for his personal crusade against capital-gains tax cuts last year. So it was no surprise when congressional leaders were summoned to the White House and the House majority leader didn't get an invitation. Mindful of the snubbing, Speaker Tom Foley has named Gephardt to lead the congressional conferees at the budget summit, so whenever Bush is present he will have to face his least favorite politician...
...central characters are Alex (Michael Ball), first seen as a boy of 17; Rose (Ann Crumb), the much older workaday actress with whom he is smitten; and his silver-haired uncle George (Kevin Colson), whom Rose marries for love and money. Over the years, all three have flings with Giulietta (Kathleen Rowe McAllen), an Italian sculptor, and Alex and George display more than familial interest in George's daughter Jenny (played by Deanna Du Clos at age 12, and by her sister Danielle at a nubile 14). In addition, each of these worldly figures, save Jenny, has countless other liaisons...