Cultural Curious Gifts

'If you're going to stare at that thing all day, at least watch something educational,,, like Japan,'

"Oh no, Professor Enriquez, you misunderstood... When my brother said he was on a vegetarian diet, he meant he only eats vegetarians!"

'Local or Express?'

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Great Chinese Dynasties

Omara Portuondo

"Will you have a Sphinx?"

World Tour.

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'

"Biff's old money, Angelo is new money and Boris is funny money."

"Can you speak up: there's a bloody racket going on in the background."

'Are you sure this is authentic ancient Indian art?'

Nothing like traveling hundreds of miles to immerse yourself in art for the sole purpose of killing time between meals.

"Yeah, I know. bu tthe administration didn't want to appear culturally insensitive."

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

"Please hold applause until end of dragon."

Dynasties - Ping, Ching, Ming.

'Now that we've learned to talk, maybe we should establish some speech codes.'

Introducing Piza Island.

"The Leonardos, the Raphaels, Titians, Veroneses, Giottos... Italy wants them back, all 427 of them."

Creation of Red Wine

'Our goal is to stress di-versity while remaining a uni-versity.'

'He bowed lower for me than for you.'

"Then what happened?"

The Cremaster Cycle

'Who's the new guy?'

Guide reading book called 'A farewell to arms.'

"How the hell is that supposed to feed us?"

"By 'genius' do they mean the artist or the marketing department?"

"I'm going to patronize India for my gap year, where are you going?"

A couple looks at posters of Rio, Paris and Tokyo, all of which feature skyscrapers.

'Some of these traditions don't half linger on.'