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Get the full art world picture right now while it's happening. International Rare Gallery 435 West 14th Street, 10014. Real Gallery 526 West 26th Street, 9th floor, 10001. School of Visual Arts Gallery 209 East 23rd Street, 10010-3994. SVA East Side Gallery (212) 592-2145 214 East 21st Street, 2nd floor.
Elsewhere, Chelsea has supplanted SoHo as the city's locus of contemporary art, and among the commercial galleries is the privately-funded Dia Center, just a few doors down from the brushed-steel entrance to the Commes des Garcons store. Even better is the PS1 museum in Queens, a converted school which combines works by big guns like Julian Schnabel and Sol LeWitt with the hottest rising stars. Don't spill you drink on Warhol's iconic screenprint of Chairman Mao-it's worth more than the chunk of Manhattan real estate it's sitting on. ..
I duly subscribed to it, and it clogged up my mailbox every Monday. But the magazines piled up, practically untouched, in my study. The fact that my affection for The New Yorker comes to me after I've left the real thing-New York City-makes it fetishistic. And like a fetishist who visits a lingerie store every month to pick up a new pair of cherry-red, lacy undies, I am devoted to the object of my desire. When The New Yorker arrives, I gingerly open the plastic covering and brush my hand across the table of contents, saying the title of each article in my mind as if I were reciting the rosary.
Kobelski's touchdowns came on runs of 9, 44, 1 and 1 and the big fullback managed "plus" yardage on 23 of his 27 carries. "He's a great back, but then they always seem to have a great fullback," Hamlet said. "They had a real good one a few years back who we couldn't stop and this guy was a lot like him. " New Bedford took the opening kickoff and marched 70 yards in six plays to the game's first score. A nifty flea-flicker on the first play resulted in a 47-yard strike to Stringer that set up a first down at the Central 23 and five plays later Dante hit little brother Mark in the end zone with the first of his two touchdown passes.

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