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...white ground. Look at it, though, and you begin to see flickering white spots - the afterimages of the black areas. Some of the early works, like the field of triangles Tremor (1962), seem to exist in three dimensions - to reside on a warped canvas. The jagged black lines of Blaze 1 (1962) and the ripples of Current (1964) create an illusion of color. Later, elements that ought to be 3-D (twisted threads, lattices) look flat; those that ought to be flat (stripes, waves) bulge or recede. After bursting into color in 1967, Riley used the way the eye sees...
Hell of a game, it was. Those there—Dave Merchant among them—watched what should have been the fading embers of a modestly successful career blaze up one last, magnificent time like a funeral pyre, as Merchant, heart afire, delivered a barnburner for the ages to Lavietes Pavilion...
...quiet protagonist, unimaginatively named E.S. This is not to say that Suleiman does not let his imagination run wild elsewhere in the work; one much-dicussed dream sequence depicts a woman who suddenly rebels against the soldiers using her for target practice, taking the offensive in a blaze of martial arts fury. The film won two awards at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Divine Intervention screens...
According to Thomas Batchelder, a bystander who saw the blaze, two-inch flames burned the wooden backing of Serendipity’s sign...
...opposite is true. Despite his florid rhetoric, he's well aware that his army cannot stop the Americans and their allies from taking control of most of Iraq. It may be, of course, that Saddam recognizes the inevitability of his doom and plans to go out in a blaze of chemical- and biological- explosions aimed at taking as many of his enemies with him as he can. But his handling of the confrontation until now suggests his goal may instead be to try to slow or stop the U.S. advance by fighting in ways designed to increase political pressure...