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...spilled this whole jar of tomato sauce all over, so I helped him clean up [the glass]." Along came another passenger a bit later and Bianchi played hero, shouting to the man over the mike to watch out for the sauce. Pretty soon the puddle of Prego became the object of humor and caution for the rest of the night as Bianchi warned passengers and cracked jokes all night. Within a few nights, this character had a song about tomato sauce that his regular commuters absolutely adored. He realized that he should just be himself rather than trying to please...
...Stress on reproducibility rather than originality. That is, Xerox, Andy Warhol, photography, etc. turn the concept of the unique and original object into question...
...Postulate 3: Amidst all this beverage befuddlement, this southern belle promptly lost, and found, and lost again, the worlds most priceless object, The Jewel of Denial, picked up an inspector-gadget type at the bar (color: plaid), discovered her family heritage, failed to fire her criminal maid, financed an expedition to Egypt worthy of the Natural History Museums Alumni Tours, forgot to stop at the Nile, befriended a beheaded Pharoahs wife, and used, we presume, approximately 36 cans of hairspray to hold her coiffure firmly three feet above her head...
...gaudy overstimulations are too much for our primitive nervous systems. Hypersensations engendered out of thin air (profuse consumer options, spectacular charades of sex and violence) open floodgates of adrenaline that has no sociobiological object (such as responding to actual danger). Therefore, mere untargeted anger...
...debate in Harlem produced disturbing performances from both candidates), Bradley and McCain are in a particularly difficult position: Having cast themselves as reformers and mavericks, they seem as though they ought to be morally above the fray of down-and-dirty campaigning. Thus, when they've found themselves the object of sustained attack and record-twisting, they have been slow to respond and especially vulnerable to the whistle of the referees in the media and the electorate...