Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...master without masterpieces. Instead of singular pictures, his body of work suggests a group portrait: one vast, remarkable family, with genetic similarities more noticeable than the vagrant differences in individual ambition, audacity or achievement. Each sibling carries his or her own snapshots: the weary hostility that spills across a kitchen table in The Merchant of Four Seasons; the riff of revenge in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant when a quiet young woman walks out on her longtime dominatrix to the bluesy strains of The Great Pretender; the logger-heading of fear and desire in a dozen Fassbinder movies...
...Aunt Miriam. "Ho! Ho! Ho!" You turn the tapes off and figure out for yourself why the other correct answer was the better correct answer. It's comforting to know that the money you have paid for the tapes you don't use is going toward a snazzy new kitchen set for Miriam's condo in Palm Springs...
...office eight minutes away in the silver Dodge that serves as Israel's official car for the Prime Minister. Then he really goes to work, a virtually nonstop whirligig of meetings throughout the morning. At 1 p.m., he tries to get away for a lunch in the kitchen at home with his ailing wife Aliza. He rests until 4, then goes back to the office for more meetings until 7 p.m. At night, he dozes only occasionally in front of the TV set like any weary grandfather. Usually he works for hours, phoning people throughout Israel to discuss current issues...
...produced almost as many self-portraits as Rembrandt, who painted himself 60 times. The first face of Raphael Soyer is dated 1917. The artist printed it on a sheet of cheap paper with engraving plates he heated on the gas burner in the family kitchen in The Bronx. Though coarsely crosshatched, its composition a tad askew, the engraving is a riveting reflection of the artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon...
...loans like Fidelity. If Congress ever gets around to passing Garn's bill, it may find that banks and savings and loans have made it out of date. Interstate banking has already got so far in the financial back door that it is setting up housekeeping in the kitchen...