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...painting like Wotan, 1950, through the work of Kline's contemporaries--especially, in the '40s, De Kooning, whose influence on Kline was pervasive. A case can be made for Wotan as Kline's masterpiece; that extraordinarily forthright black rectangle, with a stub of the top "girder" sticking out to the right, is an image whose Wagnerian power fits its title. Majestic and a little slangy at the same time, it is one of the most commanding American paintings...
...going to suffer when the first steel girder slips from its winch and plummets toward the field? The players are wearing helmets and pads. The fans are so tanked up on rum and cider they wouldn't notice an earthquake. The band is probably under the stands lighting firecrackers. It's the cheerleaders who will be the ones to get squashed. Talk about ruining the atmosphere for post-game tail-gaters...
...Gdansk. "After 1970, both sides behaved differently." Tuesday is the tenth anniversary of that fateful day, and hundreds of thousands of Poles were expected to gather outside Lenin Shipyard's main gate to honor the fallen workers by dedicating a 138-ft.-high monument with three steel-girder crosses on top. To the old men sitting 730 miles away in the Kremlin, that scene would be a disturbing one indeed...
Intramural football is not a glory sport--the largest crowd of the afternoon was watching construction workers hoist a girder at Harvard's uncompleted new sports complex--but players remain enthusiastic...
Sincerity in society is like an iron girder in a house of cards...