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...early 1970s, Lichtenstein was fond of quoting Matisse, that supreme artificer of images denoting calm and luxurious revery. Run through Lichtenstein's mill, however, the images lost this aura entirely, becoming stark, neutral or even disagreeable. The three fish in Still Life with Goldfish, 1972, a broad transcription from one of Matisse's still lifes of 60 years before, wear dyspeptic expressions and seem not at all pleased with the painting of a giant Lichtenstein golf ball on the wall behind them...
...make up their own work assignments, and for every one to "have a lot of fun and excitement, the kids and the teachers." The children, who are never seen or heard, challenge her with their own brand of stimulation. They come in one day and cut up the goldfish and smear excrement on the school walls...
...wisdom"--is littered with information that will surprise or amuse you, pique your anger or imagination, or perhaps make no impression whatsoever. You will discover things that you may or may not wish to know, like the genesis of the tradition of shouting "Rinehart!" and the goldfish swallowing fad, which was originated in the Harvard Union on March 3, 1939 by Lothrop Withington Jr. '42. If kiosks, unionizing shuttle bus drivers and the proposed Third World center make you wonder what passed for controversy at Harvard in generations gone by, The Crimson Anthology will give you a taste...
...pond is filled with goldfish he put there, and he likes to tell how they grow according to their environment, small in a fishbowl and larger in a pond. His are half a foot long and he attends them carefully. That afternoon a saltwater bird, a gray tern, was circling the fish, and Reagan moved quickly toward the pond. Annoyed, he began tossing stones at the bird each time it landed on the water but could not scare it off. In the past he had come across kingfishers, he said, diving down and spearing his fish, but he had never...
...find the Peace Café turn right at the Four Unities Hair Salon, pass the East Wind Movie Theater and head down Goldfish Alley. Before it was shuttered in the late 1970s, the café attracted some of Peking's most stylish youth, like New Nation Li, "attired in silken shirt and a well-tailored, gray Western suit with tight-fitting bell-bottom pants and pointed black shoes." Or Benefit-the-People Wang, by day a soldier in the People's Liberation Army, by night an exponent of the funky layered look. "From the chin up he looks...