Word: cavernous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Henson-Oz trademark: a sense of giddy fun. Audiences nourished on the sophisticated child's play of the Sesame Street Muppets and the music-hall camaraderie of The Muppet Show may not be ready to relinquish pleasure for awe as they enter The Dark Crystal's palatial cavern. And they may not be alone. Miss Piggy would take one look at the place and order pink satin drapes. -By Richard Corliss
What detains the eye in a Welliver is, in part, his assertion of "abstract" readings within a very forthright and apparently realistic transcription of raw nature. Typically, his spaces are shallow and entangled. You are on the forest floor, in a cavern of green and gray, gazing at an almost impenetrable screen of slender tree-trunks, fallen branches, brush, lichens and rocks. There is no horizon line to offer visual release: just more forest, dappled and blotched with light. The surface is not oppressively congested-for at his best, in paintings like Late Light, 1978, or Shadow, 1977, Welliver...
...chief of the national guard showed me a collection of about 7,000 old weapons straight out of the cavern of Ali Baba. He wanted Browning light machine guns, which I managed to get out of Canadian surplus stocks, and we clinched the deal." The Panamanian antiques were sold to U.S. gun collectors, and Cummings was launched as an international gun barterer. He recycled 26 Vampire jets from Sweden to the Dominican Republic, swapped field equipment for Guatemalan arms, sold 80,000 machine guns to Finland and got a cache of old collectibles in return...
...populated now by a few aging relatives in varying stages of derangement. She suffers what appears to be an epileptic fit, recovers and falls asleep. Martín watches and realizes that he cannot save her: "It was as if the prince ... had at last found himself before the cavern where the beauty is sleeping, guarded by the dragon. And as if, moreover, he had become aware that the dragon was not a menacing creature there at her side watching over her, as we imagine him in the myths of our child hood, but instead, and much more frighteningly...
Into that frigid cavern, and 328 smaller warehouses and depositories around the country, the Department of Agriculture each week deposits 45 million lbs. of unwanted butter, cheese and nonfat dry milk. The accumulating hoard, which now totals 800,000 tons, or enough to fill a fleet of supertankers, is the result of the U.S. Government's 32-year-old dairy-price-support program. How to keep the stockpile from swelling even larger is now giving the Reagan Administration something approaching collective indigestion...