Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winter's main show at Manhattan's Japan House Gallery, "Paris in Japan," is not popular stuff. Its subject looks almost quaintly peripheral. It sets out to describe the impact of French art on Japanese artists who went to Paris between 1890 and 1930, the highest years of French influence on world culture. It does not contain a single masterpiece; almost everything in it is derivative, and not always very intelligently so. One would not normally cross the street to see earnest Japanese pastiches of Renoir, looking like inflamed rubber dolls. The only artist in it whom anyone in America...
...protesters were "publicity seekers" and their pleas "absurd." He plans to showcase revivals at a smaller midtown theater. "We made the Regency a lot newer, and it will gross almost four times as much in its first year." Not a man to be convinced that the Regency was the stuff that dreams are played in. The visionary showman sounds here like an old-time movie villain -- a Darth Grabinsky -- or an urban-renewal slumlord wondering why the family inside doesn't want its home bulldozed...
...usual bland stuff, enabling one to drink many cups. Water could be replenished faster, although this is not a kitchen for especial fire in the spicing. Blessedly, there is no music. Decor is minimal, which only shows off the Ta Chien work to better effect. The best of the fortune cookies tells us, "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food." Is this subtle criticism of gossip journalism...
...lineup is fine," said Neilson after the match. "We just need more solid play and we'll get it once reading period ends. Right now everyone's writing papers and stuff...
...award of $16.5 million to New Orleans' Tulane University and Xavier University, a 2,200-student black school, to advise the Defense Department on how to dispose of hazardous waste. The Pentagon had never asked for the advice, but Senator J. Bennett Johnston, a Louisiana Democrat, found time to stuff the chestnuts into the pork roast for his own constituents. Xavier's share of the grant, about $7 million over two years, is its largest contract ever...