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...gestural rhetoric fatally easy to mimic, that they got from him and reduced to parody. (The artists who would really make something of his legacy were not in New York but in California: Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud.) Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns reacted against him, sons against the parent; but Rauschenberg's now classic Oedipal gesture of rubbing out a De Kooning drawing could not erase the obvious fact that the paint in his combine-pictures came straight out of the older Dutch master, drips, clots...
...have the will to confront a tired and hardened world with our youthful vigor. We are non-confrontationalists, consensus builders. We want nothing more than to please the men and women who currently wield the real-world's power, whether they go by the name boss or parent. In short, there is a general spirit of conformist malaise about Cambridge these days...
...fact, no one objected to Quayle's praise of personal responsibility and the two-parent family at the time. To call President Clinton, as Quayle does, a "convert" to such bromides is preposterous. To be sure, the past couple of years have seen a growing fashion of blaming illegitimacy for everything from urban crime to the North Korean nuclear bomb. But even in ancient 1992 it required no courage to endorse "family values...
...same time, he informs white audiences that they must take responsibility for the past and they will have to reconcile themselves to a future of majority rule. He is the paterfamilias of his nation (his staff members call him "Tata," which means father), but he is a stern parent, not a cuddly...
What any good executive can expect is that success breeds imitation. Where Disney and Warner go, competitors will follow. Sony, which owns the Columbia Pictures library, has opened high-tech prototype stores in its Manhattan headquarters that emphasize the parent company's electronic equipment but also feature bibelots from current sitcoms (Seinfeld coffee mugs, Ed Bundy WHY ME? T shirts) and old movies (Three Stooges dolls, an On the Waterfront I COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER sweatshirt). This month, in the same building, the company will unveil Sony Wonder, a free exhibition space with the first permanent interactive movie theater...