Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked as if the Murphys' world was truly charmed, but like so many other worlds, it fell apart in the early '30s. Gerald had to take over Mark Cross, which was a million dollars in debt. The Fitzgeralds' crack-up began in earnest; Hemingway began the drift from wife to wife. Then, in a terrible 18 months, both the Murphys' sons died, one of tuberculosis, the other of meningitis...
...American art, and that entails large work space. Traditionally, artists seek out a district where space is cheap and plentiful, like the Greenwich Village brownstones four decades ago. Then a price spiral begins with the arrival of uptown people seeking a chic downtown pad. Rent up, artists out; the drift begins again. New Yorkers, being neurotically fashion-addicted, not only use artists as their Seeing-Eye dogs but promptly usurp their kennels...
...Mefferd's room (made with the help of Universal Television) is a stunning perceptual experience: a pitch-black chamber lined with strobe lights. When they flash, the effect is engulfing and somewhat unnerving: silhouettes etch themselves on the retina as on film, and afterimage sheets of brilliant color drift and flower across the entire field of vision. Mefferd's piece is unique in that it is wholly objectless art -everything happens on and to the retina without mediation...
...appeared on Moscow TV screens. He was playfully floating on his back in the zero gravity of space and pumping his legs as if he were pedaling a bicycle. Then, while all Russia watched, Volkov accidentally released a picture of Lenin, letting the father of the Soviet state drift aimlessly around the spacecraft...
...hours until Commencement drift down to a precious few, speculation is running rampant through the Yard about this/year's honorary degrees...