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...more recent pictures in this show, California Valley Farm, 1987, is positively goofy. There is a steeply sloping hill with, near the bottom, a tree growing out at a wacky angle. Just above the tree is the farmhouse, which, with its angled porch roof, looks like the profile of a silly face staring in surprise down its triangular nose at the tree. Most recently, after a move out of San Francisco in the mid-'90s, Thiebaud embarked on a series of brightly colored, sharply divided, wildly patterned landscapes of the Sacramento River delta, seen from way up, as though from...
...free offerings: the free movies in Bryant Park, the Summerstage concerts in Central Park, the book readings, the poetry slams, the roller skating rink. While exploring these options, I learned more. The admission fee at the Metropolitan Museum is only a suggestion. The sculpture garden on its roof is one of the best (and most accessible) views in Manhattan. And when you want tickets to Tom Stoppard’s “The Seagull,” you actually do have to line up three hours beforehand...
...Mississippi has reportedly offered to finance construction of a new retractable-roof stadium and a training facility, as well as a sports-themed amusement park with parking and tailgating areas for fans. Sources said the deal will also include a NASCAR racing track. The stadium would be completed by the 2006 season...
...When we see a helicopter land on the roof of the CBS building and a man in a dark suit from New York get out," jokes one of Lear's writers, "we know we're in censorship trouble." Network censors are rarely as melodramatic as that. Usually they are a task force of some two dozen men and women, each of whom oversees a portion of a network's total programming (including commercials); they review scripts and sit in on tapings and screenings, questioning anything that seems to conflict with federal broadcasting law or their network's standards of taste...
...collective unconscious and to draw millions irresistibly to the box office. Start a mass-medium migration like that, its producers hope, and millions more will turn out just to see what all the excitement is about. After that, as they say in the trade, 'through the roof...