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...state Fortune 500 company coughed up $1 million. Other checks have ranged from 80 to $287,000. In last week's queue: a middle-aged widow who had discovered that her late husband had failed to pay a 1973 state tax bill...
...imaginative force and outright terribilità, it is quite possibly the most crushing and exhilarating exhibition of work by a 20th century artist ever held in the U.S. Beginning this week, over the next four months nearly a million people will queue outside New York City's Museum of Modern Art to get a glimpse of it. Pablo Picasso, who died in 1973, is being honored in a show of nearly 1,000 of his works, some never exhibited before, drawn from collections the world over...
...only it no longer becomes an exercise in narcissism. But empathy that is more than self-love does not come easily. Particularly not to a culture so fixed on its own image that it can look at Lincoln, gaunt and grave, and see a man ready to join the queue at the pâté counter at Zabar...
...store owners and other retailers queue up at the Consumer Electronics Show every June to place orders for the Christmas selling season. When participants gather this week in Chicago for the annual bazaar, however, the hot topic of conversation will not be whether Zaxxon or Keystone Kapers will unseat Centipede as the industry's bestselling videogame. It will be: What's going on at Atari...
...largely youthful audiences have already returned to see the picture a second or third time, giving some indication that Jedi may remain a box-office bonanza for weeks and months to come. "I saw the first two movies only 15 times each," apologized one young man in a Manhattan queue. "But my friend Abby saw them 150 times each. She even sounds like Darth Vader sometimes." However it sounds, such talk fills Hollywood with awe and sets gold chains tinkling with envy up and down Rodeo Drive. If George Lucas does not have the Force with him, he has something...