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In America, Nostalgia For Things Is Apt To Set In Before They Go.

It Is Hard To Think Of Any Work Of Art Of Which One Can Say 'this Saved The Life Of One Jew, One Vietnamese, One Cambodian'. Specific Books, Perhaps; But As Far As One Can Tell, No Paintings Or Sculptures. The Difference Between Us And The Artists Of The 1920's Is That They They Thought Such A Work Of Art Could Be Made. Perhaps It Was A Certain Naivete That Made Them Think So. But It Is Certainly Our Loss That We Cannot.

We've Got A Recipe For Disaster. It's Huge -- This Combination Of Body Image Issues And The Drug's Weight Loss Appeal.

An Ideal Museum Show Would Be A Mating Of Brideshead Revisited With House & Garden, Provoking Intense And Pleasurable Nostalgia For A Past That None Of Its Audience Has Had.

In Art There Is No Progress, Only Fluctuations Of Intensity.