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...muddy scrum against the wall. The last goal was recorded in 1909. Uniforms are complicated. There are variations on the famous black swallowtail coat. Seniors who belong to Pop, an elite self-elected group of academic and sport leaders, have their own version. So do "tugs," the academic upper crust...
Birdcage director Mike Nichols is trying a different perch: he made his British stage debut, performing in the Wallace Shawn- penned upper-crust satire The Designated Mourner. Critics gave a thumbs-down to the stream-of-consciousness chatter running through the play but praised the former Nichols-and-May star's "meticulous performance" as the cultivated cynic...
Such tableaus, breaking through the crust of American denial and euphemism about old age, madness, sex and death, packed a wallop 30 years ago, and still do today. It's not surprising that the Kienholzes' work was more popular in Europe, particularly Germany, than in their native America: Americans have never had much appreciation of satire, especially in the visual arts. Even today Kienholz's detractors think he was practicing some kind of anti-Americanism (along with the rest of the godless liberal queer whiners favored by the National Endowment for the Arts, natch). Actually, he was at least...
...heat turns its dirty, icy surface into dirty water vapor mixed with other gases. If a comet is on its maiden voyage to the inner solar system, though, its surface is encrusted with dust, which prevents much evaporation. The first visit may only loosen the crust, while later trips allow the ice to evaporate freely. That was evidently the problem with Kohoutek...
After all, he seems to have truly succeeded in getting in touch with the working class, a remarkable feat considering his life-long existence as a member of the elite upper crust of Washington D.C. Of course, there were little mistakes along the way, like driving a Mercedes while preaching "America First" during the '92 campaign, but that's all behind...