Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gaddafi may now find it difficult to hold onto his northern slice of Chad. The expectation is that the retreating troops will make the arduous 500-mile desert trek north to a Libyan base in the Aozou Strip, a 50-mile-wide, mineral-rich area that has been in dispute since World War II. If Habre decides not to push his fight with Gaddafi into the Aozou Strip, Libyans may push Gaddafi to leave the rest of Chad to Habre. But predictions involving the erratic Gaddafi are always risky. Last week, for instance, he threatened to join the Warsaw Pact...
...suddenly hit home. Director Spike Lee, whose 1986 picture She's Gotta Have It earned $7 million on a $200,000 budget, recently caught flak from executives of Columbia Pictures, the Coca-Cola subsidiary that is distributing his current $6 million movie. Reason: Lee's lead character was named Slice, which happens to be a brand of soft drink produced by rival Pepsi-Cola. The director reluctantly changed the character's name...
...opportunity came with the Pop movement in the early '60s. His contribution was the image taken from advertising or tabloid journalism: grainy, immediate, a slice of unexplained life half-registered over and over, full of slippages and visual stutters. Marilyn Monroe repeated 50 times, 200 Campbell's soup cans, a canvas filled edge to edge with effigies of Liz, Jackie, dollar bills or Elvis. Absurd though these pictures looked at first, Warhol's fixation on repetition and glut emerged as the most powerful statement ever made by an American artist on the subject of a consumer economy. The cranking...
...prefers political crusading, onstage and off. He and his characters have seemed to inhabit a world of clear-cut right and wrong. This personal history gives poignant impact to Miller's new one-acts, collectively titled Danger: Memory!, at New York City's Lincoln Center. One is a kitchen slice of life between elderly friends, the other a charged and almost surreal interview between a hostile police detective and the father of a murder victim. What links them is a parallel revelation: in each, a man about Miller's age admits that after basing his life on progressive principles...
Roommates and visiting friends are another source of troublesome entertainment from the other side of the counter. If there's more than one friend visiting, a competition immediately starts to see who can make me screw up first. Once, distracted by a shouting friend, I let the blender slice into the cup I was holding. Half-churned vanilla and shredded paper spewed across the service area, covering me and my customer with sticky blobs...