Word: formicaed
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...counter are six guys just off the late shift. Two tables away are a Harvard student and his girl. He is pounding out a solo with his fingers. His girl is talking about God. The boy keeps pounding, moving, the head low, the fingers hard and calloused on the formica. For five minutes, this crazy drum solo. Then he stops, leans over, and kisses his girl. The six leer...
...trouble is, as one anticritic remarked, they are now saying more and more about less and less. That includes some museum officials who are critics as well. Describing a box by Richard Artschwaser, Ralph T. Coe of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery wrote: "The cheeselike surface of his formica triptych opens to reveal-absolutely nothing. This work reaches clear into the unlimited recesses of the mind: recesses that could frighten." Sam Hunter, critic and director of Manhattan's Jewish Museum, commented on a work by Barnett Newman, maximum leader of the minimalists; it was a large canvas...
What they find is a new kind of nude art, stripped of sensuality, giant in scale, brightly colored and with all the appeal of a Formica-top kitchen table (see color). The wonder is that 42 British and American sculptors could all be found doing such similar things, and even its admirers are hard pressed to find words to praise the new cool geometry...
...results are finishes that are impersonal, materials that are industrial: plastic, Formica, steel, chrome plate, baked enamel, fluorescent lights. One of the artists in the exhibition studied naval architecture, another engineering. Their lingo is strictly post-Einstein; they speak of their art in terms of space warp, time lines, and optic energy...
...quality of the first Scorpion is uneven, ranging from a what-the-hell-is-it piece called "Eight Days" to David Ansen's '67 readable and polished short story "And Baby Makes Three." Ansen's story is about plastic, formica, sensitivity, and sex in Southern California. Specifically, it is the story of three generations of women who are chronic losers at love. With excellent dialogue and good characterization, the piece moves along, jumping (not always smoothly) from one "great line" to the next. The reader is delighted to see the entertainment at a bar, consisting of a Mexican guitar troupe...