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...drawing from the American trompe 1'oeil tradition begun in the 19th century by Peto and Harnett, Shaw casts objects-playing cards, books, tin cans, ax handles-in porcelain and then glazes them into a more than photographic accuracy of surface. Sometimes, though not often enough, a flash of real poetry appears in the midst of Shaw's virtuoso pedantry. Moonlight Goose, 1978, with its loving simulations of flaking paint and marbled paper, attains a wistful charm almost worthy of Joseph Cornell...
...high-flying co-captain and leading scorer Billy O'Dwyer, who has seven goals and 11 assists so far this season. He should be teamed on a line tonight with speedy Lee Blossom (5-6-11), slowed by injuries early on but now back at full flash, and freshman David Livingston...
...taken part in a 150-vehicle convoy to deliver donated food from Western Europe. He was directed to a Polish warehouse that he said contained "more butter than I've seen in my entire life." Poles generally welcomed the government's sudden bounty, which disappeared in a flash in widespread hoarding, but many considered the new supplies a cynical effort to win support...
Status in its diverse forms still exists, no doubt, and many an American is still out there grabbing after some of it. What makes the spectacle ridiculous now is that, except in rare cases, people who have latched onto some status cannot be sure of how to flash the news to the world, and people who are watching cannot be sure who is dramatizing what sort of status with what symbol. Order Gucci loafers and you only risk winding up shod the same way as the boy who delivers them. A Cadillac today signifies nothing about the owner except that...
...Crimson flash Greg Olson almost put the Friars, and the white-knuckled fans of both teams, out of their miseries a minute later. Olson, who had already scored a shorthanded goal in the second' period, flew through center ice with the puck and raced in on Proulx on the right side. But Proulx again came up with the pad save, and sudden death was turning into lingering death...