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...what of the work? Varnedoe's catalog essay bears the title "Comet: Jackson Pollock's Life and Work," which fits the eclat and brevity of Pollock's appearance. But comets eventually swing back on their orbit and return, whereas Pollock was a singular and not a cyclic event, more like a meteor that plows into the earth and wreaks havoc on its climate, filling art's air with fallout. Artists have been defining themselves and their work against Pollock ever since. Yet most of his influence was indirect. Pollock's mature style--based on dripping and flinging skeins of paint...
...care to--parlay the role of this adorable meddler into a multimillion-dollar picture deal, as Clueless's Alicia Silverstone did. Still, Emma could conceivably vault Paltrow from her current status as bright ingenue to the top of the list of serious young actresses who combine Oscar eclat and box-office clout--a little Streep, a little Sandra Bullock. Anyway, Emma is a showcase part, handsomely played...
...modern-dance concert in years, reached for the sword. Most took Croce to task for not seeing the work (though, of course, if she had not made the provocative gesture of writing about a work she refused to see, her piece would have lost some of its eclat). New York Times columnist Frank Rich laid down the lines of the dialogue on the op-ed page. "aids is responsible for yanking death out of the American closet," he wrote. "This is the story of our time. Amazingly, Ms. Croce missed...
Most of the entrees are a rather typical assortment of seafood, beef, chicken, and pasta. The Gourmet Delights section (each for $9.95) is far more tempting, and rightfully so. All of our entrees were amply-sized, served with perfect timing, and presented with eclat. The Baked Chicken Breast Florentine, stuffed with spinach, tomato and Swiss cheese, got mixed reviews. Says Adam, "The cheese sauce was quite creamy and the stuffing was strong, but not overbearing; I'd get it again." Says Trey, "The odor of the cheese was nauseating; as I was chewing it, I felt the cheese expanding...
...seemingly orchestrated campaign portrayed him as having shown insufficient regard for profit margins during the previous five fast-growing years, in which company revenues doubled. And after Andre Schiffrin left in February as head of Random House's esteemed Pantheon division, where profit had always been secondary to literary eclat, company officials hastened to portray him as fiscally incompetent. In April, as if to underscore the insult, Pantheon named a new executive editor, Erroll McDonald, 36, who in an op-ed column for the New York Times had scorned a pro-Schiffrin protest rally organized by writers and editors...