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  • I'm not asking for a private tour (I was however, sent an invite to the press preview, but a scheduling conflict forced me here on the first Tuesday of the show, allowing the sardine-can truth to come out), but show me a theater or music act with the artistic or historical impact of Cezanne and I will show you someone who is charging way more than $25 per ticket for a rare stateside appearance.

    Mat Gleason: Suffocating in San Francisco With Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and a Thousand Tourists Mat Gleason 2010

  • I'm not asking for a private tour (I was however, sent an invite to the press preview, but a scheduling conflict forced me here on the first Tuesday of the show, allowing the sardine-can truth to come out), but show me a theater or music act with the artistic or historical impact of Cezanne and I will show you someone who is charging way more than $25 per ticket for a rare stateside appearance.

    Mat Gleason: Suffocating in San Francisco With Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and a Thousand Tourists Mat Gleason 2010

  • The implication I want to draw from these reflections on the optics of seeing is that the autobiographical self may be imagined, contrarily, as both finding and losing itself in the eye of another — as both bathed in iridescence and uncomfortably skewered by a sardine-can.

    The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster 2008

  • Petit-Jean points to a floating sardine-can, glittering

    The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster 2008

  • Crowds had gone out of fashion right along with pedestrian-packed sidewalks and sardine-can residence buildings and all those empty shells that once warehoused people who wanted to shop, people who wanted to eat, people who wanted to watch.

    Wired Robin Wasserman 2010

  • I'm not asking for a private tour I was however, sent an invite to the press preview, but a scheduling conflict forced me here on the first Tuesday of the show, allowing the sardine-can truth to come out, but show me a theater or music act with the artistic or historical impact of Cezanne and I will show you someone who is charging way more than $25 per ticket for a rare stateside appearance.

    Mat Gleason: Suffocating in San Francisco With Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and a Thousand Tourists Mat Gleason 2010

  • Decided at the last minute not to take the sardine-can aka the train, and drove into Crows Nest as far as we could get.

    Happy New Year mikandra 2008

  • When the candles give out, the cook fills a sardine-can with bacon grease, manufactures a wick out of the carpenter's sail-twine, and behold! the slush-lamp stands complete.

    HOUSEKEEPING IN THE KLONDIKE 1993

  • It wasn't written on a sardine-can label for nothing, I thought.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • What sort of person did it take, he wondered for the umpteenth time, to trade away his birthright for simple sardine-can safety?

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

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