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...There used to be a feature in the old Spy Magazine - a feature I used to occasionally write - called "Downhill from Here." The idea was that it was a portrait of some celebrity or public figure just a smidgen past the zenith of their fame, and how they were just about to start their descent. Bill Clinton is slaloming downhill fast; Alan Greenspan is about to start slouching toward the valley...
...been chopping garlic with the blunt side of a knife my whole life and a dinner guest walked into the kitchen and pointed out the blade. Now, instead of the glorified walking I'd been doing, I could move to the blaring music with a smidgen of grace. Trust me, you haven't really heard the Backstreet Boys until you've slithered to their rhythm with your knees crooked anew...
...banging, yelling and screaming. After half an hour, it is time to surrender and weep at the failure to acquire foodstuffs. Then the feeling hits - the same feeling of finding out that Santa isn't real, that the tooth fairy was actually mom. Realization of this reality obliterates any smidgen of innocence - this beacon of consistency, this paradigm of perpetuity, is not Store 24, but Store...
They're not quite racists. I'm sure they have a smidgen of diversity within their sales-force ranks. It's hard to describe them as chauvinists since I'm certain that they have a smattering of female executives. And I'm willing to bet that they even have a couple of retailers with crooked noses that are prone to the occasional pimple...
...curated some intelligent shows on Constructivist sculpture, Brancusi, Antonin Artaud's drawings and other topics, affirms that Polke's vernacular has "regenerate[d] the language and meaning of Western artistic experience," and suggests that he is the Hieronymus Bosch of our day, you sigh. Polke has never shown a smidgen of the aesthetic intensity, the absorption in religious and moral experience or the staggering completeness of Bosch's universe of images. This has to be the silliest comparison since Julian Schnabel last likened himself to Picasso...