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...Counsel Frank Rothman gave his findings to Van De Kamp in October 1979. Since then the TV world has been waiting for the D.A. to pounce. Instead he issued an 81-page report that found the main culprits to be sloppy business practices and a kind of Alice-in-Wonderland bookkeeping...
There was nothing silly or pulpy about Cornell's pursuit of innocence. As Ratcliff argues in his catalogue essay, it had much more to do with the need for redemption than with any fancies about the artist-as-Alice-in-Wonderland. That need could never, by its nature, be satisfied: no guilt, no culture. Cornell was a wholly urban artist, cultivated to his fingertips, and the peace he sought was not pastoral. It was a sense of cultural tranquillity, where all images are equally artificial and equally lucid, permeable to the slightest breath of poetic association, linking memory...
Flick attributed his course's popularity partly to the "fun literature" on the reading list, which includes "Gulliver's Travels" and "Alice in Wonderland...
...like the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland, "sighed a Democratic Party official who has helped Carter over these years. "He is disappearing into the trees, and there is nothing left but the smile...
There are transitional cases, and most of them ride the Blue Line. They are going home, but from Wonderland or Suffolk Downs, and the older ones are beginning to look, well, sad. They leave before the last race at the dog track and walk out across the vast parking lot, clutching their superfecta tickets. Someone catches the finale and dashes out, just making the train. And though the men would rather go home not knowing, they always overhear. They had the 4-3-7-1, and wouldn't you know it, they came...