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Kamal Yacoub Coral Gables...
Bourgeois's most stringent and satisfactory works tend to be those based on either "primitive" totems or natural forms: coral polyps, breasts, clusters of buds and palps. The totemic pieces cluster sociably together in crowds, tall and etiolated, often made up of worn chips and fragments of wood threaded on a central armature, like shashlik on a skewer, and then painted. Bourgeois likes repetition with small variations: some of her larger pieces, like Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972, are composed of hundreds of marble cylinders, their tops lopped and slanted at different angles, clustered on a platform...
There were six of us sitting in the darkened living room, watching in despair as the flames flickered and flared up the coast. The smoking rails of the coral and the huge crossbeams of the Forests' house across the streets still glowed faintly through the dark, but the engines had long since abandoned the hopeless effort and gone clanging off to some other front where they were more desperately needed. The fire had disappeared over the hill, leaving only the charred grasses, and the stooped figures, silently picking their way through the smoldering ashes...
...inviting ad shows coral reefs, blue water and the green-carpeted Caribbean island of St. Lucia. But the advertiser is not an airline seeking to entice vacation travelers. It is an obscure federal agency, the Overseas Private Investment Corp., drumming up business for the political-risk insurance it sells to U.S. firms that operate in the Third World. OPIC is a bright star in Washington at a time when many departments are in eclipse. Says OPIC President Craig Nalen: "We are a real Administration success story...
Since then, Nordic designers have given every European style their distinct mark. Denmark's Georg Jensen's silver and opal Dragonfly brooch (1904) and fellow Dane Erik Magnussen's Grasshopper brooch (1907) of silver and coral are unmistakably art nouveau. They are also unmistakably Scandinavian. Like virtually all the objects in this exhibition, they show the patient toil brought to bear on stubborn, natural materials. This is what Frank Lloyd Wright called "organic" design...