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...first Robert Altman's new film looks like a baffling slice of metaphysical sci-fi-a sort of 2001 at Marienbad. Weirdly costumed characters with names like Essex and Ambrosia wander around a frozen, nameless city mumbling about the Apocalypse. Packs of vicious dogs appear in scene after snowy scene to gnaw on abandoned human corpses. The number five turns up everywhere: people wear five-sided hats, speak of a five-sided universe and play a five-sided board game called Quintet. What is going on? Is that rascal Altman trying to bring back the new math...
...parslied carrot spears glistened appetizingly before my eyes. I was hard-put deciding between the baked bluefish almondine or roast leg of lamb as entree. Finally, to top it all off was a succulent slice of blueberry pie a la carte. The only thing lacking was a tart ten-year-old bottle of Chateauneuf-des-Papes...
...food at Adams is noticeably better. The salad bar, for example, is markedly more varied than those at other Houses. At Adams, you can sprinkle celery salt in your tomato juice, garnish your salad with real bacon bits, anchovies or mushrooms, spread honey-butter on your slice of bread, and wash it all down with tomato juice or percoaled coffee with real cream...
...investment. But the expense of processing them went up so much that it did not pay to issue them. "The cost is the same whether the bond is $25 or $100," says a Treasury official, who estimates that eliminating the old $25 standby, plus some other changes, will slice $20 million off administrative costs...
...these did not represent the essential Rockwell as far as his public was concerned. What they wanted was a friendly world, shielded from the calamities of history and the endemic doubts that are the modernist heritage, set down in detail, painted as an honest grocer weighs ham, slice by slice, nothing skimped; and Norman Rockwell gave it to them for 60 years. He never made an impression on the history of art, and never will. But on the history of illustration and mass communication his mark was deep, and will remain indelible...