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...contrast to these technology-obsessed works, Gabriel Orozco contributes a table cluttered with quiet, ephemeral models. His attention to materials and tiny scale transforms dried oranges, spotted seed pods, a papier mache mold of a sock, and a tower of Yardley soap boxes into intimate marvels. These laconic sculptures demand (and deserve) our thought and time, as do Orozco's elegant photographs which reveal his sensitivity to natural mysteries and visual puns, like a cluster of sleeping sheep in Common Dream, or a languid hose seeping water on the floor in Hose (Manguera Dormida). His small, subtle observations play beautifully...
This is a nation founded on a tax revolt. No one wants a meddlesome Big Brother tax system that can find your odd sock for you, but it ought to be as capable as American Express or Citicorp. Chiseled above the entrance of the IRS building in Washington is an Oliver Wendell Holmes axiom: "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society." Americans also pay for the agency that collects those taxes, and they have a right to expect not perfection but efficiency...
...that. Nobody who sits near me at the ballpark seems to feel personally diminished by living in a minor league city. We do not consider ourselves fundamentally so different from Duluthites or Sioux Fallsians or Fargo-Moorheaders. We all eat the same brand of corn flakes, and one size sock fits all. However, in Minneapolis, the 42nd largest American city, there are people who imagine it to be the Manhattan of the Midwest, the Paris of the Prairie. This is embarrassing to us St. Paulites, like knowing a small man with a bad toupee who thinks he is Tom Cruise...
...with anger between its labor and management. United, Northwest, USAir, TWA and Continental are lined up with labor negotiations like so many jets waiting to take off from O'Hare. Does this mean a year of strikes? Not necessarily, but the situation at American is a sort of wind sock for the industry...
...familiar as she was with the ways of Foggy Bottom, she was also going where no woman had gone before: into an office with its own gray marble bathroom outfitted "for the boys," she says, with suit racks and a long column of small, thin sock drawers. Her time is treated as a precious commodity, and she is learning shortcuts. Did Warren Christopher have any tips on how to save time with her personal routine? "He can't help me," Albright says. "I wear makeup." She brought from her U.N. office her pictures and awards, her Harlem Globetrotters jersey...