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...food was so good the night before the invasion that the soldiers called it the Last Supper. For many, it was. We talk about how much America can stand, how many casualties the country is prepared to endure; the answer means nothing without knowing what we buy with those lives. The carnage of Dday, though horrific, was less than most planners had feared. Of the paratroopers in the first wave, some were shot as they dangled from trees and church steeples; some were dropped into the sea or so low that their chutes never opened. Of those...
...First Supper...
...people like Jeph Gurecka start calling these items art, it might push the prices up even further. The New York City-based sculptor and performance artist?famed for making artwork from decomposing food?is currently collecting menus from plane crashes. Gurecka calls this grisly labor his "last supper" project...
...people like Jeph Gurecka start calling these items art, it might push the prices up even further. The New York City-based sculptor and performance artist - famed for making artwork from decomposing food - is currently collecting menus from plane crashes. Gurecka calls this grisly labor his "last supper" project. Tasteless or not, most of the collections reveal an innate fascination with travel, invariably rooted in a time when trips seemed more exciting than they do now. One wonders if the overcrowded hub-to-hub travel of today is likely to breed as ardent a generation of collectors. Indeed, with...
...fights long ago and don't need to have them again, and there was so much to talk about that we couldn't have with nonsiblings present, stuff from childhood when our hearts were open, and now we carry it everywhere we go. We were in London, having supper at the pub on the Thames where the gallows once stood where the highwayman Jack Sheppard swung back in the time of George I, and the river reminded us of the Mississippi, and pretty soon my brother was telling how he found a .32cal. pistol in a cornfield behind the house...