Word: cooker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly Longo is the best of them. But his ambitious split show, which fills two galleries (Castelli and Metro Pictures), displays a worrisome unevenness: harshly accurate feeling one moment, bombast the next. Longo's subject is people under stress; in his paintings, the lid on the urban pressure cooker is always about to blow. He began to make a reputation two or three years ago with life-size figures of men and women apparently in their late 20s, starkly drawn in graphite on a blank ground, twisting and grimacing and staggering. They were, of course, done from photos (only...
...years ago this month, John I. Dunlop emptied the dean of the Faculty's office in University Hall, leaving a campus fraught with student agitation and faculty in-fighting. However, within the same month Dunlop departed an academic pressure cooker, he was thrown into another fire as President Nixon's director of the Cost of Living Council. There he faced dissimilar yet equally challenging problems...
Helen, who had had no medical training, gave the boys morphine and antibiotic injections, picked off the goo and seared flesh, wrapped the victims in sheets sterilized in a pressure cooker, and forced them to drink eggnog through straws (all the water was contaminated). When Helen returned after putting her own children to bed, she discovered that a witch doctor had ripped off the bandages and was rubbing hot pepper on the wounds, invoking Christian saints and Mayan deities, all the while drinking rum. In a scene reminiscent of Elijah confronting the prophets of Baal, Helen told the parents that...
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...next time I dissuade my three-year-old from some artistic endeavor because it's messy, I'm going to think of Leah Spielberg making cherries jubilee in a pressure cooker for Steven so he could film the explosion...