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...FATHER is a vulture of good housekeeping. When I was young, he would swoop into my room with a garbage can and a laundry basket. "If it moves I'll shoot it," he would tell me. "If it doesn't move I'll wash...
Like my dad, I try as best I can to create my own little microcosm of cleanliness. Sweep, wash, throw away--whatever it takes to keep the fiend at bay. But, after all these years of washing machines, garbage cans and recycling bins, I feel truly trapped. Am I the only one? Does anyone else see the monster at the Union, where first-years use about 9000 "Veritas" cups each day? How about in the Sunday New York Times, which comes at the cost of acres of forest land...
Parretti pins his latest woes on his being looked upon as an outsider and an Italian. Such bellyaching doesn't wash with Hollywood veterans, many of whom were on hand at last week's paparazzi-and-stars dinner in Parretti's honor by the National Council on the Aging. Parretti won the group's recognition after dining with council chairman Daniel Thursz and wondering aloud what the highest donations tended to be. "Oh, a few hundred thousand, I guess," remarked Thursz casually. A day later, Parretti promised the charity $500,000 -- to be paid in five installments...
...tonalities -- Ju Dou looks like a dream of carnage at sunrise. When the couple make love by the dye vat, a long bolt of red fabric unravels past Ju Dou's face: an ornament to her ecstasy and a hint of the blood to be spilled. The lovers cannot wash out the stain of their passion. This is a movie about taint...
Multi Rose differs even more; it features a wash of pink and one dominant streak of color descending at the center and tracing the bottom edge of the canvas. This piece plays on the contrast between a monochrome background and the simple line composed of deep red, yellow and blue. Only in the line is the touch of the painter apparent. As a whole the work pleases in its composition and use of color...