The notorious spring banquet Oppenheim assembled in 1959 on the body of a nude woman is, not surprisingly, absent from the Guggenheim exhibition, but the catalogue features a picture taken at this occasion and photographs displaying the artist's own pose before the camera.
Each year at our Berkeley County Council PTA Spring Banquet I quote our National PTA co-founder, Alice McLellan Birney, who in 1897 said "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must be what PTA wants for all children".
For 1944-1962 there are fairly complete sets of meeting notices, membership lists, and programs for annual spring banquets and Christmas festivals, along with miscellaneous correspondence and news clippings.
During winter I feel emotionally malnourished, while spring is like a banquet ready to be eaten.
The banquet scene springs some surprises, and the 'Patria oppressa' chorus isn't nearly as bleak as it became.
The designer Maria Bjornson had replaced the usual well-behaved geometry of palatial arches, pillars and stairs with a boisterous fantasy of distorted perspectives that made pillars tilt, arches spring into whorls and a huge banquet table pour out like widening lava.
The software is being used in Japan to show off rental properties, banquet halls, wedding venues, hot springs resorts, car dealerships and even individual vehicles for sale.
Here, a banquet might include crucian carp braised with spring onion, belly pork slow-cooked with fermented beancurd or crisp stir-fried shrimps.
These include monthly dinner meetings for information sharing, a spring motorcycle show, the winter conference and seminars, an annual Awards Banquet, and an annual Connecticut SuperRide.
"We saw it happen almost overnight," she said, describing programs that sprang up in sites like former auto-shops and part-time banquet halls in neighborhoods like Brighton Beach and Manhattan's Chinatown, siphoning off low-income immigrant seniors from regular senior centers, "and basically stealing Medicaid dollars to do it".
March wanes, awards banquets fill the calendar, the Oscars approach and the big spring movies begin to fall into place.
