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...chef hunkers over a circular cutting board, pushing a few small, rosy slices of raw lamb into a pile. Then Wayne Nish begins to chop until he's left with a mound of lamb tartar, which he molds into the shape of a bonbon and arranges on a square white plate, alongside an identical mound of tuna tartar. Between them he dribbles a cascade of osetra caviar, tiny shimmering globules the color of wet seaweed. Aside from a delicate sprig of cilantro, nothing else is on the plate...
...fully functioning economy that meets the needs and desires of the American people for [an]ever-improving standard of living. At the same time, we have a strong national commitment to wanting to make sure that we pass on the environment to our kids and grandkids in better shape than we found it. But there's no reason in the world we can't do both. And an awful lot of the technology that's been developed in recent years, and I think will be developed in the future, is aimed specifically at allowing us to produce the energy...
...true artist’s artist is hard to find. Among the latest photo-fabric-shrapnel assemblages and “conceptual” curves-and-stripes fads that populate today’s modern art galleries, the artist who strives after the time-honored nature of shadow, shape and color is a rarity...
...collections of open jars and pitchers rest innocuously on top of non-descript tables. The visual confection normally found in still lifes—reflective sparkles on glass, pastel groups of flowers or dew on fruit—is nowhere to be found. Instead objects are simplified into flat shapes. A cup is represented through the simple shape of a cylinder rimmed with shadow, while a drape of fabric becomes little more than a hard-edged line...
...called the father of the contemporary still life, relentlessly painted the same enamel bottles and china bowls for decades, using a palette that never wandered more than a shade away from gray. Like Morandi, Ablow is concerned with exploiting a pictorial brand of truth, discovering something universal in the shape of insipid junk...