Word: decking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Deck: at the Edgartown Yacht Club," a crowd of upper-crust men and women schmooze on a boat. Men in sunglasses drink and chat and look vacant. Women sit clustered around a table in the foreground; their circle, like their lifestyle, is closed...
...resume a normal, unarmed routine. They think they are making progress. On Day 23 they spotted a dust mop being shaken out a window. "At least she's cleaning house," says Gainer. And on Day 24, Allen poked her head out the window and briefly ventured out on her deck...
Often details in his paintings seem to jump out at us, rather than remaining obediently where they should. For example, the red hat band in "On the Upper Deck," looks as though it is sitting on the surface of the canvas as opposed to on the hat in the image where it belongs. Similarly, the highlights on the buildings in "Montmartre Street Scene" appear more like abstract shapes on the picture plane than reflections on buildings in the distant background. This conflict between the material surface of the painting and the illusion of space in the image is doubly intriguing...
...MacDowell), live in a house that seems to be located on the edge of the world. The water in their swimming pool laps over its edge and into the Pacific Ocean. Mike spends his mornings teleconferencing with his secretary and barking into a cellular phone while lounging in a deck chair. On the same day that his wife calls from the living room to announce that she's leaving him, he receives a mysterious 400-page e-mail that sets his life spiraling out of control...
...first three flybys can be seen anywhere with open access to the sky, such as a roof deck terrace, the JFK Street Bridge or next to the River Houses along Memorial Drive. Mir will rise above the Harvard Business School and Soldiers' Field and then cross over the Charles River before disappearing behind the River Houses...