Word: glassing
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Martirosov said Goldin “smashed the glass real good”—glass shards were strewn about the car and got stuck in the gear shift, preventing him from shifting gears and driving...
...returned many times throughout the afternoon. At one point Christo wagged his long, thin forefinger at Jeanne-Claude, but for much of the time his hand rested on hers, or hers rested on his. Christo looks a bit like Woody Allen, with his floppy grey hair and dark, thick glasses. He was casually put-together, mixing an old khaki pocketed jacket with jeans and loafers. But where Allen is nervous and pessimistic, Christo is joyful and energetic.The evening finished with an award dinner held overlooking the city and Boston harbor from the ICA’s stunning glass theater...
...thing that commands the eye is a patchwork array of decals along the walls and ceiling. They bristle with dog-eared flyers, bumper stickers, and mascots from long-forgotten guerrilla marketing campaigns, in a kind of polychrome collage fit for a museum exhibit of ephemera. Like butterflies mounted behind glass, they’ve been taken out of their natural habitat, removed from the context of the streetlamps and mailboxes where they meant what they said, into a new habitat and context, where they mean something else. On these walls, they symbolize an intrinsic bond between the post-bohemian artistic...
...They sit in droves wearing freshly pressed uniforms in glass kiosks underneath the city, swiftly tapping their Bic pens, keeping patrons in their proper place...
...back on the train headed home, I realized that it wasn’t just glass that had separated me from these attendants. It had been an added impersonal, inconvenient, paper barricade of bureaucracy...