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Kienholz's best tableaus remind you what a long shadow Edward Hopper cast on American art. (It is a fair bet, though, that Hopper would have found Kienholz's raucousness and sexual satire detestable.) The Beanery, 1965, his famous reconstruction of a grungy West Hollywood bar--a little slice of hell, in fact, full of endless chatter, where all the clients' heads are clocks whose hands have stopped for eternity at 10 p.m.--has its affinities to Hopper's Nighthawks. Even the silver G.I.s in Kienholz's great antimilitarist piece, The Portable War Memorial, 1968, have a spectral Hopperish sadness...
...wonder what Mrs. Loker would say about Harvard excluding alumni from this wonderful place," said Rod Kessler '71, after haggling at two different counters in an eventually-successful effort to buy a slice of pizza and candy for his five-year-old son Martin...
...even more complicated than that. Assad wants all of the Golan back, and Israel wants a full peace with Syria, including diplomatic and trade relations. But Israel is willing to return the Golan territory only slice by slice, testing at each stage to see if the peace is real. Given those unsatisfactory terms, Assad may have decided that it makes no difference whether Peres the peacemaker or Netanyahu the hard-liner is in office in Jerusalem. "Syrians were very hopeful that Peres would take a big step," says Ibrahim Hamidi, a Damascus-based journalist. "Either Peres couldn...
Instead of craving Au Bon Pain chocolate croissants, we now desire petit fours from the coffee shop. Instead of contenting ourselves with a slice of Tommy's, we seek out greener, Mexican pastures. Loker Commons has raised our standards...
Steve Forbes also points with pride to his Scottish background, a nation of proud, hearty people whose idea of a buffet is a slice of gray meat, a loaf of bread and four different kinds of potatoes...