Word: airing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last month, President Clinton came the closest he ever has to acknowledging the blame that America shares for this catastrophe. During his three-hour stay in Rwanda, with an idling Air Force One behind him, Clinton acknowledged that the United States and the international community could have done more to stop the killing, and finally acknowledged what happened in the spring of 1994 for what...
President Clinton's office on Air Force One has a small desk, a couch, magazines scattered about and, these days, a new boom box. As he flew home from Africa Thursday night, he listened to Charlie Parker and Wynton Marsalis. Like the music, his mood was a complex mix of mellowness and energy in the aftermath of the dismissal of the Paula Jones suit. Although the feeling inside the White House is that he has been the victim of a protracted personal assault funded by right-wing money, Clinton is wary about speaking out publicly, because he and his advisers...
...daughter lives on Australian Standard Time, eats like a wolverine, gulps down air, stores up pockets of gas that are not easily jiggled out of her. She poops with gay abandon. Her deepest pleasure comes from pooping while feeding, to engage the entire digestive tract at once. Pure bliss. She fights off sleep, afraid she might miss something. Midnight to 6 a.m. is prime time, and if she dozes, she keeps one eye open for the main action. My maneuver for laying her in the crib is very involved, something I learned from a National Geographic special on the praying...
...grid to which Close enlarged the original photo. It suggested an obsessive involvement on the artist's part, but kept the viewer distant, with nothing sensuous to hook onto--unless you had a thing about freckles and wens. This idea of deadpan, photo-derived "objectivity" was much in the air at the time--a small movement, Photo-Realism, was one of the spin-offs from Pop Art--but nobody took it as far as Close, or with such riveting effects. These are lost in reproduction--the image shrinks back to being just another photo, and its command on your attention...
...even thickly textured platelets of papier-mache glued on top of one another, looking to extend the ways in which repetitive, grid-organized painting turns into the irresistible semblance of a face. All the time, the surface gets richer and more baroque, a far cry from the uninviting air of the early work...