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...rather large woman with frizzy black hair. But Indonesia was an uncommonly tolerant place. "For someone like Ann, who had a big personality and was a big presence," says Zurbuchen, "Indonesia was very accepting. It gave her a sense of fitting in." At home, Ann wore the traditional housecoat, the batik daster. She loved simple, traditional restaurants. Friends remember sharing bakso bola tenis, or noodles with tennis-ball-size meatballs, from a roadside stand...
...friend quickly forgot our traffic transgression and, assuming the role of chauffeur with my dad squeezed in back, continued in the wrong direction on the senso unico narrow street to the Gilberti residence. He rapped on the door, and out came a woman named Zia Theresa in a housecoat...
...thought the merlin had killed their mother. But then I saw her lounging around the maple, as if in a housecoat, and decided she's just a lousy mother. Or perhaps it was Mother who perished in the attic. Maybe the cats ate the baby squirrels - delicacies, no doubt, like sushi. The cats, fat as pashas, having yet to shed the opulent fur they acquired in the long cold winter, sit motionless, an hour at a time, under the maple, hoping to pounce on a careless songbird. But the cats will settle for red squirrels, which themselves lie in wait...
...objects on the table are drowned in it. Here is a jug, there a cup, there a brioche--but what is that oval yellowish object on the right of the tabletop? Forms sink against the light, and at first you hardly even see the ailing Marthe in her housecoat at the left edge of the painting, timidly holding her cup. Yet, as so often happens with Bonnard, under the ambiguous surface lies a rigorous structure. He jotted in his diary a reminder to seek "big forms, even in small formats." His still lifes, in particular, are marvels of marking...
What still plagues SNL this year is a penchant for sketches that don't seem to have any point. The show's new, unexplainable fixation is with characters who yell at faceless crowds. One has Cheri Oteri in a housecoat screaming at children from her front porch. The skit is too redolent of a scene from Vicki Lawrence's Mama's Family to watch comfortably in its entirety...