Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FISH DISH Dubbed Skin Caviar by its maker, La Prairie, and packed with a silvery spoon, this chemical anti-aging goop looks good enough to eat. It raises the question of whether these tiny pearly grains are meant to be spread on toast or on one's face. The latter is the answer, of course, but if stored in the refrigerator, Skin Caviar, at $65 for two ounces, could lead to some surprise snacking...
...Atlantic. Given most of the talent we have, this may not sound like much of a compliment. Certainly Kiefer's limitations are inescapable: his drawing lacks fluency and clarity and his color is monotonous, though the former seems to reinforce the grinding earnestness of his style and the latter contributes to its lugubrious intensity. What counts, is that he is one of the few visual artists in the past decade to have shown an unmistakable greatness of vision...
Hart's megalomonia probably is slightly less divine, though. He's too existential to think he--or anyone else--is a messiah. Instead, he seems to fancy himself some latter-day "Great Legislator." Many philosophers--all of whom Hart has read--spend a great deal of time waxing eloquent about the need of a people for such a visionary and just man to set down laws for them and to lead them to the promised land of social harmony and peace. Hart clearly thinks himself a neo-liberal, technocratic Moses...
Telephone information operators are not permitted to give out their names or answer non-phone number related questions. But they do have supervisors who can do the latter...
...caresses them tenderly. Another memorable sequence shows the defendant's artist father, dressed only in a white loincloth, hanging by his wrists like the crucified Christ. It is one of several explicit religious images that portray the struggle of good against evil in a way that unfailingly identifies the latter with officialdom and the former with its victims. Lest the viewer miss this point, Varlam appears as the devil in one scene...