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Boris Yeltsin and a handful of Soviet companions made an unscheduled 20-minute visit to a Randall's Supermarket after touring the Johnson Space Center. Between trying free samples of cheese and produce and staring at the meat selections, Yeltsin roamed the aisles of Randall's nodding his head in amazement. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, “there would be a revolution.” He looked especially excited about frozen pudding pops. “Even the Politburo doesn’t have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,” he said.

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Stefan Bleihauer

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Karma by Jiro Ban

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via murdermetonymy

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette, 1876

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Intricate collage art by Fred Tomaselli 

Fred Tomaselli makes exquisitely rendered paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin. Medicinal herbs, prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants are combined with images cut from books and magazines: flowers, birds, butterflies, arms, legs and noses, for example, are worked into dazzling patterns that spread over the surface of the painting like a beautiful virus or growth.

Tomaselli sees his paintings and their compendium of data as windows into a surreal, hallucinatory universe. “It is my ultimate aim”, he says, “to seduce and transport the viewer in to space of these pictures while simultaneously revealing the mechanics of that seduction.” Tomaselli has also incorporated allegorical figures into his work – in Untitled (Expulsion) (2000), for example, he borrows the Adam and Eve figures from Masaccio’s Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (1426-27), and in Field Guides (2003) he creates his own version of the grim reaper. His figures are described anatomically so that their organs and veins are exposed in the manner of a scientific drawing. He writes that his “inquiry into utopia/dystopia – framed by artifice but motivated by the desire for the real – has turned out to be the primary subject of my work”.

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Selfie, Mars Curiosity Rover, 2013

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"I love your eyes and your Leninist thinking"

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(Goose)step right up, folks

"He loves the circus. The thrill of underpaid performers risking their lives is a real pleasure to him," the document notes. "During the summer of 1933 he went several times to the circus and on the next day he would send flowers and chocolates to the value of several hundred marks to the girls who had performed dangerous feats before him... He does not care much for wild animal acts, unless there is a woman in danger."

-"How Cheerleaders Gave Birth to Sieg Heil"

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Psycho biddy, qu'est que ce

Psycho-biddy is a colloquial term for a sub-genre of the horror/thriller movie also known by the name Older women in peril, which was most prevalent from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s. The genre has also been variously nicknamed by the press as "hagsploitation", "hag horror" and "Grande Dame Guignol." In her review in the New York Times for the 1968 film, The Anniversary, Renata Adlerreferred to the genre as "the Terrifying Older Actress Filicidal Mummy genre," adding that "the genre isn't that distinguished after all."

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