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...attempts to lay lawn turf across the road in front of his house. A woman kneels in a flower garden that has sprung up in her kitchen. It's no surprise that he loves David Lynch. To get into Crewdson's perennial frame of mind, Lynch's Blue Velvet is recommended viewing. It's also not surprising that his father was a psychoanalyst, because Crewdson has the good Freudian's obsession with fetishes. Circles, birds, stains and windows figure repeatedly and mysteriously in his pictures. Fetishes were an obsession for Alfred Hitchcock...
...places more fascinating than the mind of David Lynch, and you'll find it in Paris this spring. Until May 27, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art presents "The Air Is on Fire," an exhibit featuring artistic works from the enigmatic American filmmaker of Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland...
...They've been fed these lies, that it's just a bunch of cells that's not worth anything," Wilson says. "But those limbs are moving. That heart is beating. You don't have to say anything ..." She brings out a black velvet box that looks as if it holds a strand of pearls. Inside are four tiny rubber fetuses, the smallest like a kidney bean with limbs, the biggest about the size of a thumb. This is what your baby looks like, she tells clients; this is about how much it weighs right now. "When we do the ultrasound...
...they thought red should mean ''go'' and not ''stop.'' Meanwhile, the traffic lights stopped operating. Goods they considered offensive or unsuitable for a socialist society they destroyed or confiscated. Because they did not think socialist man should sit on a sofa, all sofas became taboo. Innerspring mattresses, silk, velvet, cosmetics and clothes that reflected Western fashion were tossed onto the streets to be carted away or burnt. One day, I decided to venture out to see all this for myself. Red Guards were stopping buses and punishing passengers whose clothes they disapproved of. (In my old shirt and wide trousers...
...Hire a velvet hammer. G.O.P. officials said the return of White House counsel Fred Fielding to the job he held in the Reagan Administration signaled to Capitol Hill that the Administration would not simply stonewall in the face of subpoenas and investigations. Fielding will take a tough stance in some negotiations and be flexible in others. "He's highly partisan but highly regarded," an official said...