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...strains have further weakened Democratic political machines, diminished mayoral patronage powers and eaten into old special-interest coalitions. Republicans, independents and rebels suddenly have solid chances to win in unexpected places. Some examples...
...pecan pie, a banana sundae, racks of assorted pastry, ice cream, cheeseburgers. Made of plaster, slathered with lush enamel paint, these goodies actually seem ready for the consumer's fork and spoon. But like four-color advertisements of food, they are designed more to entice than to be eaten. An Oldenburg baked potato nonetheless looks hot, smoky, delicious -with butter melting over the white insides. Yet visually it is as powerful as a volcano, with energy and drama in the eruption of its thick, baked skin...
...strange, puffy quality. Then it begins to work within a scheme of resemblances. The nose metamorphoses into a fireplug; the plug into a coin phone box; the phone into a car." Once, just to discover exactly what did happen to a banana's shape when it was being eaten, Oldenburg made five banana shapes out of canvas, filled them with plaster, peeled the "skin" and bit them all down to varying sizes. "I spit the plaster out," he says. "It tasted terrible. But I had five bananas, each very different...
...shoulder bag to be used by his Los Angeles staff, but he admits that he left his own at home on a trip last week to Dallas. "There are certain areas where you can move with a shoulder bag," says Howe, "and other areas where you would be eaten alive...
...would believe that when Movie Stars Jason Briar and Monica Ploy went on their publicity-stunt retreat in an abandoned abbey on the California coast they were nearly eaten by a scaly sea monster? Gossip Columnist Harriet Troom would, but then she actually was eaten by the monster when she sought out Jason and Monica for an exclusive. And who would believe that? Nobody, but the whole satirical fantasia on the Burton-Taylor legend in Harvey Jacobs' story In Seclusion is so funny that it doesn't matter...