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...such heavy fiscal lifting presage, as some hoped, a return to the market boom of the '80s, when squillionaires competed for favored artworks like mountain rams in rut clashing horns over a crag or a mate, and when new money would pay just about anything for just about anything? Obviously not. For instance, at the Ganz sale someone paid $7.9 million for a good Jasper Johns--a far cry from the $17 million paid for a comparable picture at Sotheby's nine years...
...Chablis...well, it just goes to show that strange truth is always better than contrived fiction. Playing her(?)self, The Lady mugs shamelessly but never falls into self-parody, deftly avoiding the cartoonish rut that claims other characters. Her authenticity is refreshing, and I found myself wishing Kelso would hook up with Chablis instead of Mandy--it would have been more in tune with the spirit of the story. In any case, you will emerge from the movie theater with an entirely different attitude towards the words, "hide my candy...
...Friends" examines the pain associated with losing contact with old friends, but in the end hope for the rejuvenation of those relationships. "Only One" looks at boredom and anxiety associated with the fear of taking risks. Buttercup dig reflectively into their subjects and don't fall into the rut of writing empty love songs...
Ellis Cose's Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World (HarperCollins; 260 pages; $24) is an attempt to break out of what the author calls "the well-worn rut into which racial reflections and conversations commonly fall." A pit of conceptual quicksand would be more like...
After that disappointment, the Crimson (9-17-1, 3-12-1 ECAC) fell into a rut that turned its season into a rebuilding one, plain and simple...