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THERE'S an old Monty Python sketch in which a man meets a policeman in a park and tells him his overcoat has been stolen, but he didn't see who took it. Both men realize there's little hope of ever finding the coat, and they stand around for a few seconds in silent resignation. Finally, one asks the other, "Do you want to go over to my place, then?" The other responds affirmatively, and both leave. End of sketch...
Busting loose. While waiting to do a satellite interview, George Bush asked a reporter if he had seen a Johnny Carson sketch that parodied Bush's tense interview with Dan Rather. The V.P. repeated the piece, in which a man confronts his wife over the question of his breakfast cereal. "Where are my Charms?" he asks. "I traded them for sausages," replied Bush, now playing the wife. "You traded Charms for sausages? How could you?" demands the husband. "I wouldn't want my entire career as a housewife judged on that one trade. You wouldn't want your entire career...
...minute video of the making of the American Ballet Theater's $350,000 production of Gaite Parisienne, which opened last month in Tampa and is now touring the U.S. The dancing was effervescent, but the stars of the show were the sassy, spectacular costumes served up from the sketch pad of the host. Gaite was a stand-up, cheering hit. After the lights went up, Lacroix joined the crowds and danced the farandole, the heels-up peasant dance of Provence. He hoofed it until...
...also the cloud studies and several of his grandest oils, such as The Lock, 1822-24. There are also such painters as John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, Francis Towne and Thomas Girtin, whose images of landscape exhale the sweet breath of exact vision through its quintessential medium, the watercolor sketch, while the apocalyptic side of English Romanticism gets full play in William Blake and John ("Mad") Martin...
...disaster for the industry as a whole. Traditional toys have not lost their appeal, however short they may be on microprocessors. There will apparently never be a shortage of buyers for Crayola crayons, LEGO blocks and roller skates. Indeed, Ohio Art says sales of its Etch A Sketch, now in its 28th year, are up 50% this year. Says Gil Wachsman, president of the 128-store Child World chain: "What we're seeing is people moving toward better quality, and intrinsic to that is better value." For parents who still have closets full of little-used toys from Christmases past...