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Meanwhile, the U.S. was faced with the spectacle of a healthy corporation sheltering under laws ostensibly intended for the weak and ailing. As Anthony Ludovici, an oil analyst for the Tucker, Anthony & R.L. Day investment firm, put it, "While Texaco will be in bankruptcy, Texaco won't be a bankrupt company...
Strange pictures: deadpan but not flippant, ironic but not campy. They ( used advanced elements of photographic language -- extreme distance from the subject, unemphatic treatment, carefully achieved but understated color -- but to pose what questions? Not until the Houston show, assembled by Curator Anne W. Tucker, were Sternfeld's purposes really clear. The title American Prospects, which applies to both the show and an accompanying volume of his work (Times Books; $40), points to Sternfeld's ambition for his work to be placed in the line of two other great photo essays on the national mood: Walker Evans' American Photographs...
...become a "legend." She made good on the boast with a song- and-comedy act that elicited raucous laughs and heaving sobs on both sides of the footlights. She was the Callas of Camp, peppering her program with naughty jokes in the spirit of Mae West and Sophie Tucker. Midler's good-timey raunch made her famous as the Divine Miss M, a creature she once described as embodying "everything you were afraid your little girl would grow up to be -- and your little boy." The image obscured her rightful claim as the most dynamic and poignant singer-actress...
...performance artist under the name Harry Kipper, Midler declares, "He sees to the heart of things. He respects and supports what I do. And he leads me, too, when I lose my way." Now listen to the new mom, 41, on the subject of Sophie ("not for Sophie Tucker") Frederica ("for my | father Fred") Alohilani ("Hawaiian for 'bright sky,' which is what I always wish for her") von Haselberg: "I adore her. Her face swims before me when she's not there, and I think about her before I go to sleep at night and I dream about...
...Klobucher (Carmen Getit) has the best legs in the show and some of the best lines as the opera's tramp. Tucker McCrady is Tenor Eleven, the lovesick singer, whose camp sighs are overdone with precision...