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...haven't been to Doug Wallace's place before, the big black spider hanging above the front steps will give you, if not a heart attack, a hint of what's inside: 83-year-old Wallace-"I'm a bit of a joker," he says, for the spider's only plastic-and, lurking among the books and papers that swamp what most people call the lounge room and he calls his workshop, more spiders, real but safely dead and under glass...
...Pressed again for her reaction the roller-coaster developments of the past week, Rice said, with a hint of exasperation, "I don't know. Maybe I'm just not as self-reflective as you think I am. You know, I was thinking, all right, we go from Rome and, kind of, 'What's next...
What it produces are places where familiar elements of the urban landscape are digested and sent back to us as sculptural environments. Curved basins recall the empty swimming pools where so much of skateboarding was refined. Slopes hint at the concrete canal embankments where a million kids scuffed their elbows. The best parks give you the impression that layers of urban and suburban memory have been compressed into rolling seabeds. The whole place is like a collective unconscious forged in concrete. All so that some 12-year-old can use it to do a kick flip...
Simple H20 was the star of the show, popping up purified, fortified and flavored. San Faustino boasts a high calcium content. O Water undergoes reverse osmosis to filter out impurities and is then distilled into steam, while Hint, left, comes in flavors like pear, peppermint and a fabulous pomegranate-tangerine. And so as not to sully your drink with ice from tap water, Ice Rocks, disposable ice-cube trays filled with pure spring water, now available only at specialty shops, will be more widely distributed...
...astonished. There was no hint of her restlessness, none that he could detect. The stiff elegance with which he has carried himself droops in defeat. Jean's belief in his ownership of Gabrielle was the foundation of his comfortable view of life, his complacency and, as he perhaps now realizes, his self-deception. (Which makes the viewer question the acuity of his observations about friends and status...