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...artists exhibited in Eat Art, Dieter Roth is the most ironic and perhaps the most macabre. Bertolt Brecht’s idea that we only eat in order to excrete is applicable to his work. The juxtaposition of a lion made out of chocolate (which he calls a self portrait) and bunny made out of excrement reveals that eating is just part of the digestive process. Ironically, after 30 years of decomposition, the chocolate lion is more revolting than the bunny. Roth is poking fun at the heroism and self-aggrandizement that is often associated with sculpture. Beuys does...
...made by Acer and running Journal--out for a test-drive. The hardware is pretty slick. It starts off looking like a laptop, but then you unhook part of the screen, swing it around 180[degrees] and push it down. Press a button to go from landscape to portrait view, and presto! Instant Tablet. The whole thing is about the size of a thick legal pad, weighs under 3 lbs. and sits comfortably on your thigh. It doesn't get hot, and you can rest your wrist and arm on the screen without messing up your work. That's because...
...German-Jewish elite, it focuses on Conrad Arnheim, a lazy, boorish lout who marries first for business and then for ego. The cover sums up the theme pretty accurately: a married couple, screaming at each other, with fists clenched, stand against a background of a stiff, older-generation, family portrait...
...adapter of a famous work need not choose between fidelity and poetry; the King James version of the Bible had both. But Columbus is content to make a student's copy of the original master portrait. This movie about You-Know-Who is missing a sprinkle of you-know-what: what one dared to expect in a wizard's tale. This is a magic act performed by a Muggle...
DIED. ANTHONY SHAFFER, 75, lawyer turned thriller writer; of a heart attack; in London. Shaffer, whose playwright brother Peter wrote Amadeus, was best known for Sleuth, a brilliant, twisted portrait of double crossing, manipulation and revenge that won a Tony in 1971 and was made into a film starring Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier...