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Some people have obstinately wrong ideas about what is multiple and what is unique. A fish or a fruit by an 18th century master like Chardin is thought to be distinct, its presence in the still life making it the only one of its kind. But Nature is a greater mass producer than Culture. The sea is full of sea robins and whiting, all looking the same. The peach tree is laden with identical peaches. So it is with Thiebaud's cakes and pies. He is fascinated by variation within repetition, but he never thinks of repetition as being antipoetic...
...social turmoil in a way no news report ever could. In a way, O'Connor's media wake even outstripped that for Jack Lemmon, who died less than a week later, though TV actors usually land far lower on St. Peter's It List. Lemmon was praised as a master actor; but O'Connor was hailed as a national emblem, as history...
...happened—what’s happening—in New York: The Yankees are winning, Guiliani is losing, crime is down and tourism is up. What I hate is how New York has been co-opted. The biggest, baddest city has met his match, his master, in the form of Hollywood. The masters of spin have put New York on a diet, squeezed him into a size-four dress, airbrushed the dark spots and tied him up with a pink ribbon as a gift to restless soccer moms across Middle America. You know what...
...master of cinematic suspense once cited the master of literary suspense, Edgar Allan Poe, as his guru: "I can't help comparing what I've tried to put in my films with what Edgar Allan Poe put in his tales: a completely believable story told to the readers with such a spellbinding logic that you get the impression that the same thing could happen to you tomorrow." In The Man Who Knew Too Much, the murder coincides with a cymbal clash during a night at the symphony; in Rear Window Jimmy Stewart suspects that a murder has taken place across...
...domain is De la Source, and its master is French businessman Thierry Ehrmann. He uses the 6,900 sq m of interior space as his home, which he shares with two teenage sons, an 80-kg Danish dog and two girlfriends, as well as the headquarters of the Server Group, an umbrella for the 13 tech companies he has created...