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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...square-sawed balk of larch, 39½ ft. high. At first it looks like a dead inverted tree, standing on a pedestal, its branches lopped to stubs. Then one becomes aware that the whole form of the tree has been patiently excavated, by carving, from the sawed block. Working backward into the wood from knots, Penone has raised the buried ghost of the tree as it looked when it was younger. This may sound a simple conceit, but it is not: the finished sculpture, almost "nature" but not quite, also relates in a subtle way to the organic spiral form...
Many TV journalists are concerned that their colleagues' fascination with new gadgets capable of zooming and spinning images around the screen results in eyecatching but less informative newscasts. Says NBC Chief Washington Correspondent Roger Mudd, 54: "It would be a step backward if we succumbed to what I regard as the dangerous trend around on network newscasts, if we allow the pyrotechnics of television news to become more important than the news itself...
...Israel. In one biblical case, salt symbolized a lack of fidelity. In Genesis 19:1-29, two angels of the Lord command Lot, his wife and two daughters to flee the sinful city of Sodom without ever looking back. When Lot's wife cast a fleeting glance backward (her faith was uncertain), she was immediately transformed into a pillar of salt. A Roman religious ritual, however, in which grains of salt were placed on an eight-day-old babe's lips, prefigures the Roman Catholic baptismal ceremony in which a morsel of salt is placed in the mouth...
...modernize if it is to be revived, although any tinkering with tradition has always brought roars from the faithful. The "company's productions in recent years have seemed static, preserved in amber, cluttered with the gestures and mannerisms of venerated ghosts. There has been too much reverent looking backward to the epochal moment in 1875 when Richard D'Oyly Carte induced the highly successful playwright William Schwenck Gilbert to write the libretto that became...
...coronary bypass operation at Lutheran Hospital of Milwaukee. Her husband Hoyle remembers being reassured when they were told that a top visiting Air Force officer, Dr. William Stanford, would be assisting. Stanford was responsible for hooking her up to a heart-lung machine; somehow the connection was made backward. For 15 minutes no one noticed, and instead of pumping oxygenated blood into Green, the machine drained blood out of her aorta. The resulting brain damage has left her a speechless quadriplegic living on liquid protein. (And she could live that way for 20 years because her heart surgery was successful...