Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these vast halls, where the galleries have no exit but only give way to more ramps, staircases and stone voids, a fearful obsession is at work - the experience of enclosure, of invisible watchers. Space, in the rest of Piranesi's work, is (for all its exaggerations) measurable. In the Prisons it is not. No imaginative effort can deduce a real building from these scribbled and echoing crypts, with their swinging cables, their proliferating vaults and huge iron grilles: one imagines Piranesi, gripped by some mastering paranoia, trying to stabilize it and give it a "real" form. In the 18th...
...exit is not likely to affect...
...most important thing that she did at the Loeb was early in her freshman year when she met Emily Mann, who directs The Bull Only Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime. "We were standing in the lobby and started talking," remembers Coe, "and Emily said 'I love No Exit; I directed No Exit twice,' and I said 'I hate No Exit' and so that's how we became friends." A classic meeting of minds, if ever there was one, followed by collaboration in Look Back in Anger, when Mann acted and Coe directed. And Emily Mann was still around...
...fell on the room, and Hartke gingerly advanced from the shadows to address the gathering in the living room. "Why don't you folks move closer now, gather round, gather round." A few people shifted in response to Hartke's plea, but those (including this reporter) standing near the exit held their ground...
Driving back to Cambridge on Interstate 91 in the rain (it invariably rains, snows or sleets when I drive back to Harvard). I realized I was running out of gas. Desperately searching for a gas station. I made a split second decision to take the next exit just as I was passing...