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...Dine has often rendered ordinary objects-a coat, a zipper, neckties, hats-with a wry and knowing line. He has whimsically strung C-clamps and wrenches, hammers and saws, along the edges of his paint-splashed canvases. His works are partly autobiographical, since he was entranced as a child by the tools in his father's hardware store in Cincinnati. But unlike most of the artists clustered under the umbrella of Pop art, Dine claimed issue from the expressionist tradition. "My work is the opposite to cool," he once remarked...
...show at Manhattan's Pace Gallery (through Feb. 12), Dine once again deals with a commonplace object-a bathrobe, which he has painted over and over again with the persistence of Monet inspecting a lily pond. But the mood has changed. At 41, Dine has become a more somber painter, and a more ambitious...
Murdoch is seldom seen without tie, vest and stylish Savile Row suit. The Murdochs occasionally entertain at home. More often, they like to invite a few friends (among them: Murdoch Executives Richard Sarazen and George Viles and, until now, Clay Felker) to dine at a tony restaurant like Le Madrigal. Out-of-town visitors are taken for a Kong's-eye view of Manhattan and a feast at the top of the World Trade Center, and Rupert sometimes takes Anna for a quiet lobster dinner at The Palm restaurant. "I'm a bit dull and humorless, not the sort...
Concluding his farewell appearance in Brussels, Kissinger stopped off in London in a final effort to salvage the deadlocked Rhodesian talks, to dine with Prime Minister Callaghan and attend a soccer match. Then he left for Washington, to sort out his plans for the future. There will be a "decent interval" of a year for work on his memoirs. And what then? When newsmen teased him, Henry Kissinger replied-some would say with a Mona Lisa smile-"I'll be back...
...making only one special request: they asked for dinner one night on 15 minutes' notice. The staff, trained to fulfill the whims of princes and potentates, whisked filet of beef onto a table formally laid for twelve. Half of Washington would have crawled over broken glass to dine with a President-elect, but the Carters simply called in some wide-eyed young staffers to enjoy the meal...