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Reinhardt was a great purist; he was also the chief gadfly and moralist of New York art in the time of its first big flowering, the '40s and '50s. Which does not imply that other artists in the New York School lacked probity; only that Reinhardt made such a fierce point of showing where he thought art could go wrong, become soft, betray its essence. He was a fine aphoristic preacher, irresistibly quotable, and a deadly parodist. He listed the technical skills of the modern American artist as "brushworking, panhandling, backscratching, palette-knifing, waxing, buncombing, texturing, wheedling, tooling, sponging . . . subliming...
...friends, Kessler's first target is wonderfully appropriate. The man has always had an obsession with food, and he has certainly never been a nuts- and-berries purist. "I was a fat kid," he says. In college, he was the only student in his dorm who brought an entire refrigerator from home. He kept it stocked with sodas, bagels, cream cheese and cold cuts. At Amherst, he organized a pie-throwing party after negotiating a deal for 200 strawberry- rhubarb pies. In law school he trained on pizza, Chinese food and ice cream. He still has a passion for take...
...team of Boston Brahmins. But in the Big Apple we take the truly purist approach...
...Jane Fonda struts lycra-clad through home entertainment centers and the word "creamy" becomes an insult, 10 percent butterfat ice cream has joined Spam in the gastronomic archives. But for the true purist, even frozen yogurt tastes too rich...
...real animal skins, has, in part, boosted the new fad by encouraging designers to play with the unreal thing in their lines. Designer Christian Lacroix's fringed panther-print polymid shawl ($470) is hot stuff. Patrick Kelly has scored with skinny dresses in leopard stretch velvet ($340), and even purist Giorgio Armani uses mock lynx for a duffle coat in the Emporio Armani line ($685). After dark, the more the merrier seems to be the rule. Says Annie Allanche, a manager at Paris' Irie boutique: "Women are mixing leopard, tiger, giraffe and ocelot for evening...