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...light in the early, now degraded part of the decade, there are some who quietly pursued serious careers that have brought them into the present with their reputations intact. Eric Fischl first drew attention in the early '80s with weirdly charged scenes of suburban life that parted the curtain on things, generally meaning sex, that three centuries of genre painting had kept tucked away. He continues to do work you want to see. But he fears that another bubble is rising in the art market, in which prices are climbing fast again and auctions are setting new records...
...might have slowed him down a little, sure—he had earned 17 points in 15 games before he sustained the injury, versus just 12 points in the 19 contests after it—but as the curtain fell on the Crimson season last night, Cavanagh still held the lead, or at least a share of it, in every offensive category...
...Saturday’s performance, the piece called for a bizarre arrangement of the performing forces. With no introduction, the strings began to play nebulous phrases from behind the curtain. Though they were slightly out of tune, the placement of the string instruments out of view of the audience created an enigmatic ambience that suited the composition well...
...quite sure what it tells them. The expert is puzzled. The five regular Americans sitting with the President keep their curtain-rod posture and laminated smiles. Is the President insulting the professor? What is the message? Book learning just makes you an adviser, but sleep through a few tests and you too can be President...
...poetry and comedy, the acts spanned a broad spectrum of cultures and movements from the Indian subcontinent and diaspora, and made a lovely juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern. The skits that ran in between acts, while partly existing to allow time to set up equipment behind the curtain, served an important purpose in themselves by using humor to showcase the experience of being young and Indian-American in the modern world...