Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dulls everyone. But after damning T.V. at the dinner table, plenty of us still treat Star Trek or M*A*S*H as the crowning cultural achievements of the century. Too many critics engage in the effortless reductionism which labels all T.V. evil. But even in the truly crummy stuff, the medium has an attraction, one we are not likely to shake soon. So between the ceaseless rhetoric against the sinister box and a national willingness to sit and watch, one can see a strange symbiosis...
...Champagne has become a drink for all occasions and is now quaffed in such Jeroboam quantities that the fizz biz poppeth over. The thirst for authentic French bubbly, plus the grievous crop damage to French vines in three of the past four years, has raised prices for the real stuff* and has forced French shippers to ration the choice vintages. At Manhattan's elegant Four Seasons restaurant, for instance, a bottle of Henriot Reserve Phillippe de Rothschild 1975 now costs $110. Five years ago, a comparable bottle sold for about $60. At Jacqueline's Champagne & Wine...
...typical still life of earlier centuries-the 17th century Dutch table, say, cascading with "parrot tulips and gold beakers, fur, fruit, fish, feather and dew-drops-was a symbol of appropriation. It declared the owner's 5 power to seize and keep the real stuff of the world. Even the still lifes of that great master of meditative vision, Chardin, tend to retain this emblematic quality; it was written into his social background. In Morandi, things are otherwise...
Actor Paul Newman, a founder of Energy Action, a consumer group, said in Washington last week that the whole operation makes "the railroad robber barons look like cheap stuff." Ralph Nader claimed that consumers were being forced to pay for the pipeline without having a say in management...
...Western omelet for Deaver) the breakfast talk turned to a prospective White House order allowing striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization to be hired for some Government jobs (though not again as controllers). Meese suggested some precise lawyerly language. Said Baker: "I think the PATCO stuff came out . . . " Deaver finished: ". . . just the way it should have...