Word: suppers
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Rudofsky has titled his show, and also his new Anchor Press/Doubleday book, Now I Lay Me Down to Eat, which turns out to be a reference to the Last Supper. Leonardo, it seems, had it wrong. Instead of a symmetrically arranged sitdown affair, the meal was a recumbent Passover Seder. As practicing Jews, Jesus and his disciples would have dined while stretched out on couches, reclining to the left-the Passover expression of freedom. Moreover, says Rudofsky, they would have done so without the noisy clatter of silverware...
...format of this Chapelle aux Dames is a huge table in the form of an equilateral triangle. On each side there are 13 place settings (a reference to the Last Supper, with Christ and his twelve Disciples). The 39 settings commemorate mythic or real women, goddesses and culture heroines, from the Bona Dea of prehistory to Georgia O'Keeffe. Each consists of a porcelain goblet, porcelain cutlery and a large plate, all reposing on ornamental cloth runners. Most of the plates bear designs based on the female genital organs, though one of them, representing English Composer Ethel Smyth...
...Italy's worst earthquake in 65 years. The first shock, which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, hit in the early evening as most of the country was sitting down to Sunday supper. Thirty-three smaller tremors followed during the night, ranging in intensity from 3.5 to 4.5 (see SCIENCE). From its epicenter at Eboli, near Salerno, the terremoto radiated its destruction through the regions of Campania and Basilicata, a rugged belt of parsimonious countryside between the Apennines and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the ankle of the Italian boot. Though it struck the major cities in its path...
...going to jail or forcing me to really crawl through the mud to be an informer. For what purpose?" The purpose, Navasky judges, was "punitive," the staging of a "degradation ceremony" as an end in itself. A witness could clear his name only by naming others-singing for his supper...
...style inappropriate for her, because she proved herself capable of handling so many other musical genres that night. She ventured into European cabaret balladry with "Party lights" and "In the Winter," singing with a Continental touch of theatrics over her melodramatic piano work. "Silly Habits," a warm supper-club blues tune, was equally charming. Her encore, the bittersweet show business ode "Stars," presented her at her finest, revealing great songwriting craft while ringing true emotionally...