Word: caverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their allure), Aaron took the alias of Diefendorfer in an attempt to throw off his pursuers. He registered that way in out-of-the-way havens and avoided the company of his Atlanta Braves teammates. But a small boy with a ball-point pen still found him in a cavern of the stadium. "Are you a Brave?" the boy asked. Aaron was charmed. "Sure am, son," he replied with a great laugh. "May I have your autograph?" "Of course...
Your hands begin to sweat as you look around Quincy's transformed JCR--or cavern, rather. The stage is configured into the shape of a capital letter I. There are two boxes at each end of the I, chairs along the length of the room, and black drapes everywhere...
Once upon a time -- Was it really just 20, 22 years ago? -- Liverpool seemed about the hippest place on earth. Adoptive kid brothers of Lennon and McCartney made pilgrimages to the Cavern, to Brian Epstein's record store, to the holy homes of the Fab Four. Teenagers from Connecticut assumed the adenoidal lilt of the Mersey accent and recited lines from A Hard Day's Night with the fervor of mimic acolytes. It was not only the Beatles' music that inspired this love for all things Liverpudlian. It was the discovery of an English city -- working class and influenced...
...likened the event to the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in an underground cavern: all matter moved to the fringes in the shape of a shell leaving the core relatively empty. Galaxies were the direct result of the separate waves in multiple explosions colliding, which caused a large deposit of high density matter, the scientists said...
...artist. It evokes in brilliant detail the aggressive and sadistic side of Schwitters' lost oeuvre, which was grandiose and trashy but done with constructivist precision. One of his avant-garde friends, on first viewing the Merzbau's bizarre grottoes and columns (which included such elegancies as a "Sex-Crime Cavern" and a bottle of the artist's urine with artificial flowers in it), thought it "a kind of fecal smearing--a sick and sickening relapse." Would it look so violent today? Perhaps not, but certainly the Schwitters placed before us on the walls of MOMA is a different creature, edited...