Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dive to the sidewalk as the plate glass windows of One Potato, Two Potato shatter into a thousand tiny bits...
...accepted Nazi art was so bad that it cannot be disinterred and looked at. The trouble is that Nazi art was, to put it mildly, both German and 20th century, and its complete absence from this exhibition leaves the kind of hole one would expect a huge radioactive hot potato to make when dropped. It is the concealed background against which the achievements of Beuys and Kiefer have to be seen, since a large part of their work is an attempt to address the older, mythic imagery of German romanticism, which the Nazis appropriated and corrupted. Unless we grasp...
Perpendicular to that section, though, is what might be termed the "aisle of doom," which includes 10 brands of ice cream and frozen yogurt, 61 types of ice cream sandwiches, and 15 varieties of potato and corn chips...
Hanukkah commemorates the victory of Jewish patriots over oppressive Hellenistic forces and the rededication of their temple. Candles are traditionally burned to recall the miracle of a day's supply of holy oil burning for eight days. In addition, foods fried in oil, such as latkes (potato pancakes), are caten. Children often celebrate by playing games involving the use of a special top, or dreidel...
...backdrop of this cosmic comedy of manners. In the first scene, Prum stands center stage with his head inside a miniature version of his living room, nervously shooting the breeze but getting tripped up by his moribund sense of humor. You know the scene: you're standing at the potato dip and the only small-talk subjects that come to mind have to do with dead cats and getting your stomach pumped...