Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything about Doc is superlative. To begin with, he is the richest man in the world. He is also the handsomest. His eyes are "hypnotic whirlpools of flake gold" and his "perfect features display a power of character seldom seen." Best of all, Doc is really built. His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman." He can dodge a bullet, crawl up a wall like a human fly, stay under water for eight minutes, smash through an inch-thick steel door with one punch, and take...
...dead as the turned face of the moon and less visible. Manuscript illumination was the most private of all arts, tiny in scale, introverted and forbiddingly difficult to do, a matter of brush strokes one-fiftieth of an inch long and burnished dots of gold no bigger than a flake of cigarette ash. Unlike the grand-scale media of stained glass and fresco -which Michelino also worked in, though little he made has survived-an illuminated manuscript was frequently aimed at an audience of one: the patron who ordered it. Consequently, their owners must have experienced them not only...
Context directs the statement of any art work. How do we view The Great Gatsby after reading Ulysses? Is Fitzgerald the same after reading The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby? Today's conceptual artists specify context where previously most artists have not. Just putting works into an exhibit puts works in context: does a painting of an apple look the same when in Gertrude Stein's collection as when in the collection of the President of Del Monte canned foods? Yet how we arrange paintings within the exhibition creates smaller contextual elements clarifying and defining the larger whole; these...
INDIANA. With its 40-ft. walls, the gray castle in Michigan City looks its part: a maximum-security pen for 1,800 felons, including teen-age lifers. Inside, the walls flake, the wiring sputters and the place is falling apart. Indiana spends only 1.5% of its state budget on all forms of correction...
Through their toy films, the Eameses have examined everyday objects by illustrating the objects' characteristics; tops are to be spun, not to sit on the shelf. So for seven minutes the audience delights in watching whirling tops of different colors and nationalities. A snow-flake top from India splits and becomes five tops spinning at once. There is no narration; a musical score anticipates the spinning function found even in a jack or thumbtack...