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...came only out of curiosity. Others were responding to a remembered image of the plucky, wide-eyed little girl in The Wizard of Oz who had said: "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Be cause if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with...
...London and the Kassel Documenta. For his show at the Stable this spring, he chose a far subtler and less sensational idea: a latex cast showing himself as an underwater swimmer with shoals of delicate small fish clinging to his sides. It was suspended from a tree in the backyard, seeming somehow both pathetic and portentous, like a drowning prophet. Says Thek: "I didn't make it to be beautiful or ugly, or bad or good. I just do it because I like it. It doesn't matter how the public reacts...
...bass, then. He played guitar and sang creole songs. He had a little group of 'bout three or four pieces. Had a fella slappin' a washboard" -- George made a washboard-slapping gesture--"and a fella on violin, and Drag. They would go all around to little picnics, and backyard parties, and wakes and weddin's. Wherever they could find food and liquor." He smiled...
...Bead Game's sudden emergence as a full-grown rock group of overwhelming intensity and power is like seeing a super-group grow up in your backyard. It would seem to be near-criminal to pass them...
Alas, new airports produce as much resistance as relief. Most people would rather have an ABM site in their backyard than the constant thunder and stench of a big jetport. Austin Tobin, executive director of the Port of New York Authority, has fought for a fourth New York jetport for almost ten years. "Can we balance the rights of the many against the rights of the few?" he asks. So far, minority rule has won the day, but now something must give...