Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city's outskirts, new refugees grouped, once again in orderly fashion, by hamlets and villages. They occupied every available structure and open space outside the center of town: stretches of beach, the peeling hulks of former U.S. Army officers' clubs, a series of garages the size of airplane hangars that was once the property of the U.S. Corps of Engineers. There was no evidence of help from the government anywhere. Not a single Vietnamese official appeared, not a single bag of rice was delivered. Not even the police, who are usually concerned about Viet Cong infiltration into refugee...
What is happening in a work like Triptych, May-June 19741 What relation does the center panel, with its interior space - a platform with one figure crawling round the rim and another sit ting in a pool of violet shadow at the back - have to the two beach scenes on either side? Whose are the two heads in old-fashioned collars that rise, like oppressive icons of paternal authority, be hind the platform? Unanswerable questions. What remains, nevertheless, is an extraordinary density and layering of sensation - the Grand Manner returned to figurative art, but scraped...
Then Glomar Explorer, her beam too wide for the Panama Canal, sailed round the Horn and made for Los Angeles, where she rendezvoused with her companion, HMB-1. Fittingly, Glomar Explorer docked at Long Beach's Pier E, which is located only about 50 yds. from the hangar that for years has housed Hughes' gigantic plywood flying boat, known irreverently as "the Spruce Goose." Though Howard Hughes last month finally agreed to dispose of the Goose, giving parts of it to the Smithsonian, it remains at present in the hangar, a monument to his single-minded determination...
...defense contractors and electronics makers doubted the Glomar Explorer's stated purpose because of the extraordinary specifications of contracts, such as those for the giant grappling hooks and the cryptographic equipment. The fact that the seamen of the Glomar Explorer were not permitted to frequent the usual Long Beach bars aroused local curiosity...
...Moritz or soaking up the sun in the Bahamas. These are the true inheritors of Conrad and Lawrence and Lowry, as they sail away to the Acapulcan heart of darkness, to the primitive rituals of the Monte Carlo gaming tables, to the menacing volcanoes towering over Waikiki Beach. Do they, then, these voyagers inspired by visions of icy glasses of rum-and-coke, by images of deep-bronze sun tans, by dreams of discreetly wicked samba music, actually realize those hopes and aspirations that so many of their fellow students find frustrated? Perhaps they do, and the old adage that...