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that cavort and loll across Reubens' paintings or the watches, clocks and eyes that float through the canvasses of Salvador Dali.
And likewise, there will be critics who won't fall in love with Birdie, the overweight redhead with the beehive hairdo w ho works behind the counter in Birdie's Beer and Burgers An incredibly detailed reflection of a rural and rundown roadside diner complete with pinball game and cigar-smoking pinball player, posters for Camel cigarettes and Coppertone suntan lotion and a tilted Coke machine on the sagging front porch, the miniature grabs and spotlight in the exhibition
"I've been in and seen a lot of beer joints This is an amalgam of all of them," Slack explains
But it's much, much more as well. Birdie's Beer and Burgers says something about life among the down and outers, those missed bv fame and fortune It's not to sav that their existence is all grim—there are lot’s of good times to be had in those old roadside diners. But the good times are hard goixl times, epitomized by the rickety old one-seater behind the diner instead of the gleaming chrome and porcelain bath
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