Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lazare, Mexican prostitutes popping weirdly out of doorway slots. Galassi is not the first to cite surrealism as the force that conferred upon this early work its compelling strangeness, but he makes the decisive case. By the end of this exhibit's seven-city tour -- it goes to Detroit, Chicago, San Diego, Framingham, Mass., Houston and Ottawa through May 1989 -- no one will be able to look again at these pictures without seeing how they hold reality at just the right angle to be read as a dream...
...week not long ago, several hundred such beleaguered souls arrived at the American Management Association center near Chicago-O'Hare International Airport. Their companies had put up $800 to $900 a head to enroll them in courses like "Time Management" and "Assertiveness Training for Managers...
...Chicago was chockablock with business seminars that week. Next door at the Marriott, muscular types in gold chains and shorts were studying health-club management. Downtown, engineers laid out a grand for four days of "Pneumatic Conveying for Bulk Solids." A company called the 1st Seminar Service lists 100,000 such seminars annually around the country. By its estimate, corporations send 8 million people a year for outside training, and think it is worth paying about $4 billion. The rustling sound of flip charts in action runs like a breeze through the cornfields from coast to coast...
Extortion, protection rackets and tax fraud are the stuff of daily life. There are threats and occasionally even executions. It sounds like Al Capone's Chicago or Mafia-dominated Sicily in the days of gangland wars. But instead, all those evils are flourishing in today's Northern Ireland in neighborhoods controlled by extremists. Says Brian Feeney, a Belfast city councilor: "This is real godfather stuff. Everybody pays. If you don't, they threaten to harm your family or workers...
...Gorey, Ted Gup, David Halevy, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Neil MacNeil, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Mary Cronin, Jennifer Hull, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul...