Word: elephantitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The office is unimpressive: regulation furniture, except for a rectangular brown marble desk that sits like a sarcophagus on a chrome stand. There is a glass-and-metal étagère with a stereo and records. An ink sketch of a lion's face with blue eyes hangs...
The Soviet scientists constructed "a massive six-story press that just staggers the mind," Silvera says, "it ended up being a white elephant."
More recently, the work has become, if not exactly more amiable, less wrenched by signs of aggression. It preserves its haunting collisions of imagery; who knows what the elephant is doing beside the field-hospital tent in M.A.S.H., 1978, or why the white figure is on its head-an effigy...
The hottest ticket in Manhattan last week was printed on a white glove, but for most of the 1,500 guests who showed up for Michael Jackson's Thriller party at the American Museum of Natural History, it was strictly a hands-off evening. Almost no one got within...
As Hamlet says in his last words, "the rest is silence." Great terminal summations are a form of theater, really. They demand an audience - someone has to hear them, after all. More than that, they have been traditionally uttered with a high solemnity. Some last words have the irony of...