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...make Americans charming and unreasonable and shallow, is part of their formula for success. But it has led Americans into absurdities and discontents that others who know life better might never think of. The frontiersman's self-sufficiency and stoicism in the face of pain belong now in some wax museum of lost American self- images...
Robinson's affinity for pictures began at age 8 with an Ansco camera; he went on to become an Army photographer. With a bankroll of $40,000 from later work as a still photographer, he bought his first business, a bankrupt Baltimore company that removed shipping wax from imported autos. Over the ensuing years, he bought and expanded a Subaru distributorship and developed commercial office space. "In 1987 I looked at the economy and said it's time to be out of the automotive business. I sold my distributorship, lightened up on my real estate and moved to Hollywood...
Indeed, people wax lyrical when they talk about Wong. They laud her talent and creativity. And then they move on to what many regard as her outstanding quality: Wong's ability to charm almost everyone she meets. The Harvard social scene is eclectic and scattered. But Wong seems to know everyone in the senior class...
...exhibition of new paintings by David Salle at the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan (through May 4) has one tiny merit. It reminds you how lousy and overpromoted so much "hot," "innovative" American art in the 1980s was. If Julian Schnabel is Exhibit A in our national wax museum of recent duds, David Salle is certainly Exhibit...
...stuffed the mess in a garbage can, but that didn't make me feel any better: The the next morning I breakfasted on Frosted Flakes, each ounce of which was individually packaged in small cardboard boxes with wax paper liners. Later I ripped through the plastic wrapper of my Bic pens with a vengeance. In the garbage can, it nestled just underneath the cardboard monstrosity that once held a newly purchased Neil Young compact disc. Several Columbo raspberry yogurt containers rested at the bottom of the can. Have fun, guys, I told them. The garbage man will take you away...