Word: cavernness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hammock and Hatch. The selection is staggering. There is the Cave, a dim-gray cavern carpeted in cowhide, furnished with stalactites, stalagmites and a massive bed that stands 80 feet from the door. For Fanatics there is also a miniature petrified forest in which to frolic. The Round Room, designed without a single corner, features a circular bed with translucent chiffon panels above. At the pull of a silken rope, the panels part, revealing a skylight view of the stars. The Polynesian Room offers a ten-foot hammock, the Arabian Room a floor-level bed surrounded by mirrors...
...intimation of its scope may be had from one detail that Schwitters called The Cathedral of Erotic Misery. This was a column some twelve feet high and six feet wide, with compartments bearing such names as "The 10% War Invalid," "Ruhr District," "Goethe's Grotto" and "Sex-Murders Cavern." They enshrined, among other relics, a tattered stocking, which Schwitters insisted had belonged to Goethe, and a bottle of yellow fluid on which little flowers were suspended, which he whimsically called "the Master's urine"-meaning...
...Taylor's house near Phoenix, people are seen hazily through glass or as dim reflections superimposed on living-room walls and furniture. Dialogue is non-existent or meaningless; Daria walks by chattering wives at the pool without being seen, retreating into a natural rock cavern leading to the house. Inside the house, two groups of businessmen stand on opposite ends of a transparent real-estate development map trying to bluff each other, their desperate quiet energy passing unhindered through the colored plastic. Emotions are unhesitatingly suppressed, language conceals obscure truths. Daria outside, unable to cry over Mark's death, plunges...
...Chestnuts. Clues to the existence of the ancient Asian farmers first came to light in 1965 when Chester Gorman, a Hawaii graduate student, poked into a cavern called Spirit Cave by the Thais: it had served as home for untold generations of farmers and was filled with relics of their handiwork. In a thorough excavation the expedition has since found crude Stone Age tools and a number of ancient seeds-peas, beans, cucumbers and Chinese water chestnuts -of a size and type that indicate that they were grown...
...slaughtered, but a lucky few may winter with their masters in out of the wind. Beyond, and below, the last of the grapes are being gathered. Dionysus, god of wine, once stole the cattle of the sun. A castle gleams like teeth in the jawbone of an immense cavern. The cold winds will be howling soon in that mountain mouth...