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...Light-bulb eating: "I didn't think it was a craze we wanted to export from Harvard...
...second studio in the Vaucluse district of Southern France, not far from the ruins of the Marquis de Sade's castle at La Coste. A second-generation Londoner, she has in her family tree a grandfather who worked with Edison on the invention of the light bulb and a great-uncle who was a founding member of the socialist Fabian Society: a background of cold baths and emancipated thought, transmitted to her by a mother whom Riley describes as "well read, unconventional, very much a product of the new world for women of the 1920s, and always willing...
...living artist can paint flesh at this pitch of intensity, in this extremity of rage, loss and voluptuousness, or with this command over pigment. His typical setting is familiar: an anonymous oval room. It has tubular furniture, somewhere between a Corbusier couch and an operating table. Sometimes a bare bulb hangs down on its cord from the ceiling. It looks both sadistic and as ideal (almost) as Piero della Francesca's suspended egg. The people in the room are also familiar. Sometimes they are anonymous figures, writhing and grappling. The rest are portraits of himself and his friends: George...
Wall Scrawl. "The fetid 10 ft. by 10 ft. cell was windowless, barred and infested with cockroaches, fleas and mosquitoes," Robins later reported of his temporary residence. "A single yellowed bulb in the ceiling burned throughout the night as all the dogs in Christendom howled round us. On the cracked wall opposite the bed there had been scrawled in two-inch letters, MAN WILL DIE BUT THE CAUSE WILL LIVE...
...pianist had just played a smooth, neatly-groomed transition from a Schubert style sonatina to "Maple Leaf Rag," and a light bulb above my head flickered, and dimmed to about half. This was his signal in start the show. A cheap alarm clock was quickly adjusted and wound to keep taos off the length of the performance, and actress Lina Harvey dashed on some eyeliner. Jack Blessing mumbled about needing to hop to the John and everyone spread "Syntax" and kisses around for good luck. In a few seconds they all darted off onto the stage to begin the show...