Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Martin called at the Presidential Palace for a long interview with President Nguyen Van Thieu. The South Vietnamese leader bore no small share of the blame for the impending catastrophe: it was his order to the army to withdraw from the Central Highlands without much of a fight that touched off the final rout. In the last few weeks, he had shuttled from one villa to another, increasingly out of touch with his aides and allies, and with reality. He even speculated that bombing strikes by American B-52s might halt the NVA's onslaught. Hanoi also had visions...
Much is made of Nauman's use of words. His slogans--EAT AND DIE, TOUCH AND LIVE, HATE AND DIE and so on, done in flashing neon--are laconic, all right, but Beckett and Wittgenstein they're not, though the co-curator, Robert Storr, tries stubbornly to argue otherwise. Such eminent names--and Alain Robbe-Grillet's too--function as votive tin cans hung on the tree of Nauman's reputation, enhancing the piety with which one is meant to approach...
...week after coming home, I felt a stronger sign of alcohol's rapturous tendrils. In the evening, lying in bed reading, I could taste it--pure alcohol, with a slightly sweet touch. I hadn't had a drink in days, but I could taste it as clearly as the first time. I resolved to control myself with an iron hand from then onward. After all, I didn't drink for any psychological effect--atypical drinker that I am--just for the taste...
...pumps. Again, the camera watches only their legs as Evie runs around, trying to help Randy and yet stay out of the way ("Oh my God I'm such a spaz!" she cries). The reduced view captures the sexual potential underlying the situation as, inevitably, their legs bump or touch in passing. The owners of said legs either do not notice (Evie) or do not acknowledge (Randy) this sexual tension...
...Mugler's glitzy, over-the-top show was dated before the crowd found its way out of the circus. Modern fashion will never follow a single leader, but if designers, retailers and women have anything to say about it, sanity is here to stay a while-along with a touch of class and maybe a whiff of charm. Mugler served at least one important function: bring in the clowns, the bearded ladies, the acrobats. It's all downright nostalgic. --Reported bY Greg Burke/Rome, Dorie Denbigh/Paris, Barbara Rudolph and David E. Thigpen/New York