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...knew Duff and Beth were married, and knew a little of their past. With his Landscape set, Franco Colavecchia did what Pinter did with words, creating the impression of a country kitchen with only the barest of sets: a table, two chairs, side walls and a hanging wall fragment at the rear...

Author: By Merrick Garland, | Title: Pinter in Progression | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

...tissue of lies." When Anna helps her undress, she sees the servant smiling dumbly at her; she slaps Anna, and then apologizes. The nurse is not mocking her; she is only stupid, and can't comprehend Karin's hatred. After the peasant leaves, Karin takes the fragment of glass, and cuts into her clitoris. Her face at first breaks into a contemptuous grin; then into a parody of an orgasmic expression. She joins her husband, lies on their bed, and lifts her nightgown to show her bleeding. Gleefully mocking his sexual desires, she takes blood on her fingers, smears...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Tissue of Lies | 2/20/1973 | See Source »

...business to find out what it was all about," he recalls. "Part of it was to stretch wet skins, fur down, on a board and pin the edges down. Later, when the skin is dry, you remove the pins and the skin is hard." In some ways this fragment of memory suggests the works of art Samaras was to make in adulthood: the pins, the textures, the extreme sensual contrasts (soft hair against the stink of tanning and death), the transformation from moist pliability to crackly parchment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Menaced Skin | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...Simulators make noise? like hand grenades, but they can be changed by hand so as to fragment, according to our bomb experts," Phillips told The Crimson last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Blacks Killed During La. Protest | 11/17/1972 | See Source »

...longer remembers the date when he was wounded more precisely than "the last couple of days in May 1968." "We'd just cleared a bunker complex and were stationary. Early in the afternoon, a barrage came in. A rocket round hit about 15 feet from me and a fragment got me in the right buttock, right on the sciatic nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Two Veterans | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

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