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...whose drawings were recently shown at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art) is oratorical, Wagnerian; he is a flat-out mythomane, dedicated to the Sublime, the Enormous and the Ultra-German; a marvelous artist at his best and at his worst a Black Forest ham. Polke is thinner, weirder and more elusive. His work--whose basic nature developed during the period covered by this show, from 1963 to 1974--is a hard-to-read image haze formed by the overlay of Pop art on Germany's postwar consumer society and its emblems, refracted through a needling, ironic...
Their heads were gray or bald, their bellies were a little thinner or flabbier, and their jowls had dropped. High-collared, broad-fronted shirts had replaced the girls'gaping, sexy V-necks, and the boys, now old men, wore thick bifocals. Some of them were speaking more slowly than before, others laughed more softly, and one or two, tamed by years of being too shy, had resigned themselves to silence. A few seats at the table were empty. But those who remained kept talking and laughing, smiling at each other as if to say, Time has passed, but I have...
...presidency, his biggest roll of the dice. U.S. interests in Kosovo are murky, the coalition is fragile, the terrain unforgiving, and the enemy holds a lot of cards. And if you look closely, you can see the unmistakable damage from impeachment: the public is behind him by a thinner than normal majority as the operation begins. Credibility abroad begins at home...
...Micron PC offered free support a year ago when I bought it. But like most other PC makers, Micron now charges $24.95 for help with software after 30 days (hardware help is still free). I understand why this has to be. Margins in the PC business are thinner than Bill Gates' smile. Why should any PC maker have to fix the zillions of problems that can arise when consumers install their own software? A few enlightened manufacturers, such as Dell, offer free lifetime support for any software shipped on their machines. As PCs become interchangeable--one box much the same...
...WORST Technology is pushing us toward the tinier and thinner, but car companies (encouraged by buyers) keep making sport-utility vehicles bigger. As well as pollution and gas consumption, this leads to bigger garages, bigger parking lots and, yikes, bigger fluffy dice...