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...largely without Davis: its beneficiaries were the Abstract Expressionists, and later the Pop artists. Davis' pragmatism, the empirical and logical qualities of his work that seem so admirable now and connect him back to the best strain in 19th century American art -- Audubon through Homer and Eakins to the Ashcan School -- actually counted against him. What the postwar art world liked was "spirituality" and "sublimity," the tincture of melancholy elevation. But Davis had always liked the American vernacular, the look of the street, the jostle and visual punch of signs, life imagined in jazz tempo, hard-edged, Cubist-based...
...anyway, I played violin, got little exercise, read a lot and ate hot dogs. And what do I have to show for it? Admission to the Big H and, as Homer Simpson once waxed poetic, "bony little girl arms." I decided it was time for a change. It was time...
...were wrong. Everybody's favorite cartoon show seemed, for its first year or so, longer on sass than satire. But this season Homer has supplanted Bart at the program's center, and the series has soared to inventive new heights, skewering everything from multinational corporate takeovers to America's Funniest Home Videos. No doubt anymore: it's TV's most dangerous sitcom...
...were wrong. Everybody's favorite cartoon show seemed, for its first year or so, longer on sass than satire. But this season Homer has supplanted Bart at the program's center, and the series has soared to inventive new heights, skewering everything from multinational corporate takeovers to America's Funniest Home Videos. No doubt anymore: it's TV's most dangerous sitcom...
...even see the ball. Later came technical advances like the portable camera and the instant replay, and visionaries like ABC's Roone Arledge, who discovered that the thrill of victory could be the stuff of great drama. The program is packed with memorable highlights (Hank Aaron's 715th homer; Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 at the 1976 Olympics), but it doesn't ignore the lowlights, from the rise of trash sports to NBC's nutty 1980 experiment with an announcerless football game...