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Part of the attraction that Hockney's work exerts is its mixture of unusual guile and apparent naivete. He is a painter of frozen pleasures, held in ironic parentheses as though behind glass-the artificial but absorbingly hedonistic blue of Los Angeles swimming pools, the plastic palms, the flat glitter of light on a shower stall or a street facade. It is all painted deadpan, and Hockney's poker-faced style, coupled with his liking for artifacts as subjects, has given rise to the illusion that he is an English Pop artist. But unlike Pop, his work...
...sheet of typing paper, in which objects are set and, as it were, embalmed. The gel has the disconcerting resiliency of flesh-it feels vulnerable and intimate-while its contents, which may be any thing from a cut-out decal of a rain bow trout to a diminutive plastic air plane, exhale a delicate poetry of sur realist juxtaposition; their like has not been seen in America since Joseph Cornell's boxes. Memory and touch, a poignant archaeology of the self: at its best, Paris' work is pure magic...
Nothing has done more to relieve postoperative depression than development of techniques for reconstructing the breast after surgery. Dr. Reuven Snyderman, a plastic surgeon at Memorial, has found that explaining the possibilities of reconstruction has helped many women to accept mastectomy calmly. The cosmetic job involves implantation of a silicon form and substantial surgery to restore the breast to a near-normal contour. But according to Snyderman, most women are so pleased by the initial implant, which makes the breast look normal under clothing, that they do not even bother with the later stages necessary to complete the process...
...Code Authority decrees that a live model in a bra commercial must be fully clothed and if a mannequin is used, it must be headless or armless-preferably both. In an era of explicitness-and occasionally bralessness-some bra makers are eager to push the product beyond a plastic torso or levitating apparition. Lately they have been pressing the code to its literal limit, with some strange results...
...camera produced brilliant color, though some pictures appeared to be less sharp than those processed on standard, non-Polaroid film. Even so, the end product is superior to any previous Polaroid process. Unlike the damp prints that emerge from present models, the new ones -which are made of plastic, not paper -feel completely dry, even during the remarkable, outside-the-camera developing process. Thus the paper liners and other litter needed to protect prints in present Polaroids have been eliminated...