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Like everybody else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon, bit we can only deliver half a moon.
Like everybody else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon, bit we can only deliver half a moon.

Like everybody else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon, bit we can only deliver half a moon.

Artist (American, born 1938)
Date1975, printed 2006
ClassificationsPhotograph
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions8 x 10 in.
Credit LineGift of Philip A. Bernstein and Luisa Recalcati
Object number2021.0176
A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special, we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have personality to deal with the public.
A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special, we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have personality to deal with the public.
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2006
"Oh, we're reading, I'm O.K., You're O.K. and I guess we are O.K., but I thinks its because of the martinis not the book."
"Oh, we're reading, I'm O.K., You're O.K. and I guess we are O.K., but I thinks its because of the martinis not the book."
Alan Dunn
1972
"Don't deliver it until next week. I want a few days to myself."
"Don't deliver it until next week. I want a few days to myself."
Kindl (Alan Dunn)
1932
"Here we are spending billions for the moon, and what I need is a new fur coat."
"Here we are spending billions for the moon, and what I need is a new fur coat."
Alan Dunn
1967
"The way I see it, Russia thinks we think they think we're not willing to go to war."
"The way I see it, Russia thinks we think they think we're not willing to go to war."
Alan Dunn
1948
"If I promise not to let it go any further, tell me, how much is one million dollars in real money?"
"If I promise not to let it go any further, tell me, how much is one million dollars in real money?"
Alan Dunn
1969
"Promise you'll wait for me, I want something real to come back to."
"Promise you'll wait for me, I want something real to come back to."
Mary Petty
no date
Baking is the oldest trade in the world. We believe in customer satisfaction and start baking at 1:30 in the morning to ensure freshness. If it's mass produced, you have to take it or leave it.
Baking is the oldest trade in the world. We believe in customer satisfaction and start baking at 1:30 in the morning to ensure freshness. If it's mass produced, you have to take it or leave it.
Bill Owens
1975, printed 2006
"Park Avenue at Eighty-sixth. We're to come as we are."
"Park Avenue at Eighty-sixth. We're to come as we are."
Alan Dunn
1959
"Here's the one - The Coming Armageddon - I wrote it four years ago - I remember I delivered it on a day that rained and only three people came. Why don't I change the wording a bit substituting 'atomic might' for 'military might' and let it solve my problem for next Sunday? After all, Dr. Blahr does it all the time - suppose I just read it to you - you can go right on sewing..."
"Here's the one - The Coming Armageddon - I wrote it four years ago - I remember I delivered it on a day that rained and only three people came. Why don't I change the wording a bit substituting 'atomic might' for 'military might' and let it solve my problem for next Sunday? After all, Dr. Blahr does it all the time - suppose I just read it to you - you can go right on sewing..."
Alan Dunn
1948
"We hope you don't mind, but we want to show our scientists back home a real earthling."
"We hope you don't mind, but we want to show our scientists back home a real earthling."
Alan Dunn
1967
"Well, we're back. We zoomed like hell through Provence, but the dollar caught up with us at Marseilles."
"Well, we're back. We zoomed like hell through Provence, but the dollar caught up with us at Marseilles."
Alan Dunn
1973