Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the way American Indians perceived nature: as an assembly not of dead earth and dumb plants, but of sentient presences. Some of this comes through in paintings like Star-Weaver, with their panoramic veils and zigzags of light, their flecks of paint that suggest flowers, mica deposits or dust: a soft immanence, vulnerable and pantheistic. Unfortunately, Wofford overworks his paintings. The light stiffens into crusts of inert pigment. But if the picture surface is sometimes cluttered, the effort to complicate it remains salutary and even brave...
...precariously on long puny trunks; huge crepe-y hibiscus opened scentless blooms like red mouths; moon-pale magnolia flowers mingled their perfume with that of bougainvillea growing in thick purple mats over whitewashed walls--sickly sweet, heavy, overpowering. Disasters plagued the place: in summer, the hillsides grew dry as dust and would explode in flames, the fires often raging for days; in winter, rain came in torrents, churning the canyons into rivers of mud and washing whole hillsides into the sea. The threat of earthquake was constant and no one knew when the killer wind, the Santa Ana, would blow...
...bungalows, and the looming shapes of the sound stages, lofty and featureless as airplane hangars, all stand on the sandy lot divided by wide dusty roads, baking silently in the heat. There is something hallucinatory about those roads, white and glaring, always seen through a quivering haze of dust that hangs hesitantly in the air, as if great troops of extras had just passed through, or perhaps a star in her limousine, followed by her entourage of beasts and heroes. And yet these roads are always empty now, the heat shedding a terrible silence over their glare; walking through...
...anymore. It is with the small production unit that the future--unromantic but highly efficient--of film rests. Where they have not been taken over for television, the studios are falling into disuse, mere relics of a fabulous past. Those empty staring studio roads, shimmering with heat, shrouded with dust, are more truthful than the occasional bustling sound stage you may stumble into. Most of the sound stages lie as empty as the roads, but more silent still--and their darkness is total. The studios--once collectively turning out 500 pictures a year, now making maybe 150--sprawl silently, thick...
...lines from Rogers' own amazing variety of comments and stories. We get a good taste of his range: Whitmore talks of doctors, war, newspapers, friends, politicians. Politicians most of all. Rogers spoke directly about the people and issues of his day, from World War I to Mussolini to the Dust Bowl. Many of his jokes still hit home. When Whitmore says, "You all know the best place for a political convention--Chicago, of course," Rogers' words are not just an echo from 1920. Even more apt are his statements on American gunboat diplomacy: "So, we set out helping the world...