Word: napkinics
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...with ease and pleasure was the sea -itself flat, rotating upward to face the viewer like a blue polygonal tablecloth -framed in the shuttered terrace door of a villa on the Côte d'Azur and bearing a yacht's triangular sails the way a folded napkin might sit on a table. It is this still-life sea, a geometrical image of repose and wellbeing, that suffuses some of Gris's finest still lifes, like the View of the Bay (see color overleaf), with its firmly composed foreground of earth-colored guitar suavely undulating below...
...associate at the Cleveland firm International Management Inc., a man who had recently been negotiating a TV contract for the W.F.L. Keating took his mind off his lunch for a moment and calculated the value of his prize clients. He scribbled figures totaling $2.7 million on his napkin and held it up for his colleague to see. "You're kidding!" was the response. Keating pocketed his impromptu price tag and put the "ridiculous idea" out of mind...
...roads and stations--all blear, stare, and past-drunk. This is the heavy-lidded look of a Robert Mitchum, except that his moves are quicker: he's dead and jaunty at the same time. The adroitness comes from doing everything with ceremony: never has anyone ever used a napkin with more style, only the style is devilish and cynical. He's got class with a seventies lack of it. But the even, keel is only temporary--his sense of timing is knowing when to explode. And when the explosion comes, the drama is positively thundering...
Even non-residents attest to Helen's culinary prowess. Affixed to the wall by the cash register is a slightly crumpled napkin on which is written: "I've been a driver for 29 years and I bring my truck 40 miles out of the way to eat at Helen's every chance I get. And I'd take a longer detour...
...night before his death he had dinner with friends and then returned to his studio to work through the late hours of the night -- the routine he had followed for years. He worked continually, made sketches as naturally as speaking, and finally every scrap he signed, every napkin he doodled on had its value...