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...fallen a wee bit behind in paying the bills. After this rude assault, Ellen has an insight about her corporeal self and that of women in general: "A Female Body is not just a piece of liver from the butcher . . . It is more like a musical instrument made of flesh and blood that has music waiting inside it but only for properly trained hands to coax out. Make the bastards learn...
...calm and predictable subjects, like the girl seated by a vase of flowers in The Black Table, 1919, one sees his hand evoking the most difficult conjunctions of sight and imagination -- in the way the transparent Turkish blouse is rendered by a few luscious strokes of white over the flesh, for instance, or in the sliding knot of green and black shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie...
...this year's campaigns are the dirtiest in recent memory. "The issue space in people's heads is getting smaller," says Field. "The negative ads are the ones that stick." The forum for most of the mudslinging is television. In big statewide races, staging rallies and pressing the flesh in traditional "retail campaigns" are becoming dying arts; saturating the airwaves with pungent, simplistic 30-sec. "hit ads" is considered more efficient and effective...
...becomes megafarce. After an hour or so, Menage explodes from the exhaustion of possibilities, and the cast is left to pick up the pieces. They do so, handsomely, while the sardonic writer-director surveys the carnage with what he calls "my big shotgun smile." You can see bits of flesh in his teeth...
Surveys show that Ronald McDonald is the second most recognized figure among tots next to Santa Claus. It's hardly surprising that from time to time Junior decides he won't be happy until he meets Ronald McDonald in the flesh--there are 50 constantly touring the country--and Pee-Wee won't stop crying until he gets to Burger King for a Luke Skywalker commemorative glass...