Word: diamond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later. You're in safe hands. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Good to the last drop. The high-priced spread. Tastes good like a cigarette should. Leave the driving to us. I'd rather fight than switch. When it rains, it pours. We try harder. It floats. A diamond is forever...
...subjects as snails and the parasites that reside in their innards, arrived at the office unsolicited. Usually, such "over-the-transom" offerings are ignored. But something persuaded an editor to take a quick look at this one "just in case." The decision was the literary equivalent of finding a diamond in a stream...
...absurdity, though, is not completely wasted--the scene makes you laugh, as does the movie. There are some very clever sequences which, more often than not, involve great gypsy rip-offs--Rosa and five-year-old Dave stealing a diamond, Rosa telling a fortune, Dave rigging an out-of-court settlement for a trick injury. Nor is it by chance that most of the funny scenes, and the touching ones, involve Rosa and Dave...
...smaller show at the Harcus Krakow Gallery has fewer photographs, but features, in addition, a few pictures of empty swimming pools and nudes, and two photographs from Meyerowitz's current project, commissioned by the St. Louis Art Museum: one picture of a St. Louis cityscape, another of a baseball diamond. All these are photographed with something of the canny eye for pattern and electric combinations of color that guided Degas and Matisse...
...apiece), a $500 cashmere robe or any ornament made of gold, the invaluable metal that fetched some $220 an ounce on the London market last week. Tiny gold pendants in the shape of oil barrels went for $850 and solid gold nuggets for $950. Tiffany's diamond-studded gold watch was a bargain. Its price...