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...Southeast Asia. That was our heyday. I remember army and navy officers wanting to load Johnnie Walker out of the Hong Kong depot onto our plane, but the strip was too short; it ; never did get aboard. Those were the days when Japanese soldiers tried to eat Camay soap as a cake...
Taking a nap revives the spirit, clears the mind and relieves stress. It's better than meditation. It's better than a hot bath. It's even better than soap operas for forgetting what real life is all about. Is it better than sex? Well, you can decide that. But remember: Simply getting into bed can't be bad practice...
...such attention comes at a daunting price: the rise of the victimization drama. We're not talking about glitzy, Danielle Steel soap operas, or the traditional disease-of-the-week tearjerker. These are more "serious" dramas, frequently based on real-life news events and dealing with important issues. Stripped to their essence, however, they are about one thing: extravagant, glorious suffering...
...this drama the elected Senators did not represent America. Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill did. The soap opera that brought them together was as sleazy, corrupt and stupid as much of the nation's life has become. But the business touched deep matters. It was about man and woman, about sex and power, about ambition and desire. The hearings, almost a new art form, commingled private tragedy, public farce, office mini-series, and ideological bonfire...
This meant that Pop could flood the culture, especially in America, with an / ease that Abstract Expressionism could not possibly rival. The collectors, to quote the English dealer John Kasmin, "found it immediately easy and accessible. Everything added up for them: you make money out of soap flakes, and buy art based on soap-flake advertisements." The difficulties were invented later, mainly by critics who wanted to claim for Pop the depth and resonance of "classical" Modernism. You can't read what some of them wrote about the supposed profundities of Warhol's alienation without wanting to laugh out loud...