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It's a loopy little fantasy, belonging in the same genre as Dunne's classically overworked meditations on the Menendez case in Vanity Fair . (For example: "If Jose did stick needles and tacks into his son's thighs and buttocks, didn't Erik bleed?
Highly capable 20 th -century presidents who were sharp as tacks include John F. Kennedy and--bring on the hate mail!
So he tacks on different ending by turning, in his own words, to "an unbelievably grim scenario."
Here in a glass case is Man Ray's Gift (1921): a clothes iron painted black with a row of 13 tacks glued headfirst into the face.
Such objects, with their elliptical wit, return us to the dark side of still life; these bones and cages and tacks and thermometers offer a deadpan answer to what life is: C'est la vie.