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Confusing and even careless categorization detracts from the potentially interesting idea of tracing a genre of painting through different eras, countries, and media. Several uninspired classifications such as "Fruit" or "Musical Instruments" divide the exhibition. One of the more interesting categories is "Vanitas" paintings which often include images of freshly-hunted animals, hourglasses or rotting fruit to suggest the passing of time and to remind people of their own mortality, hopefully promoting moral behavior...
...three modern works--a Max Beckmann, a Georgia O'Keeffe, and an Axel Kesselbohmer--show skulls. Not one seventeenth- or eighteenth- century painting shows any of the other symbols associated with passing time; after such a lengthy label description of the section, their absence is conspicuous. However, in the "Fruit" section and again in the "Trompe I'Oeil" section, there are perfect examples of decaying fruit (one label doesn't even acknowledge its symbolic value) that would have been far more effective in the "Vanitas" gallery...
Florida orange growers are expecting a bumper crop this year, which usually means lower prices consumers. The Agriculture Department is expected on Wednesday to predict a Florida orange crop of 196 million boxes, the second largest crop in history. On Tuesday, Agriculture officials said that fresh fruit consumption in the U.S. has reached its highest rate in 40 years: last year, the average American ate 26 pounds of citrus fruit...
...true fervor, however many they may have been, would in 1994 have enough trouble finding public transportation to get to a rally; gas is difficult to come by now that the Soviets are no longer around to provide an oil subsidy. In 1980, Cubans tossed rotting fruit and eggs at the gusanos (worms) who swarmed the Peruvian embassy in their efforts to leave the country...
...politics are immaterial. Those like Cheney "who urge walking away because Aristide isn't our kind of democrat are wrong," says Baker. "If supporting democracy is a cornerstone of our foreign policy, which it is and should be, then you can't treat what democracy produces as a fruit salad, taking a raisin here while rejecting a pecan there. The test should be whether Aristide was chosen in a free and fair election. He was. Supporting him is therefore an American interest. It isn't an interest that justifies war, but it does justify rigorous sanctions...