Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, in the first indictment of its kind, a federal grand jury charged Stella Nickell with causing the deaths of her husband and Snow by means of tampering with a consumer product. Prosecutors refused to explain her alleged motives, and their memo seeking court approval of her jailing was sealed. If convicted of the tampering charge, Nickell could face life in prison...
...Kiefer's work is, in a sense, much more traditional than Beuys'. He is the modern incarnation of the grand-scale history painter, producing didactic machines rather than the ephemeral and koan-like events (talking to a dead hare, sweeping a pavement) that were Beuys' specialty. Kiefer wants to involve his audience completely in the drama of the painting's construction; in this respect, he has learned a lot from the example of Jackson Pollock. As when deciphering the web of drips and mottlings in one of Pollock's "all-over" abstractions, the eye crawls its way across a Kiefer...
...example of careful stonework and superbly finished interiors, set down on a luxuriant plot of waterfront lawn on Jamaica Bay. It began as a residence for Henry Heinschiemer, an eccentric New York banker whose security system included a sign that read, GENTLE STRANGER TURN BACK. When the age of grand living had passed it by, the big home became a hospital for joint diseases, then a private school for retarded children and later a rabbinical school. Now it is a bag lady of a building. A fire has destroyed much of the roof; plants grow in piles of rubble...
...rubbish of demolition companies to rescue radiators and doors to gentrify their old buildings. But Israel, 40, founder and president of a neat little business called the Great American Salvage Co., has made junk sorting obsolete. His firm, based in Montpelier, Vt., scouts the Eastern states for grand old homes, hotels, theaters and churches that are being modernized or are coming down completely. After negotiating a salvage contract with the buildings' owners, his band of gung-ho reclamation experts carefully removes architectural details. These are spiffed up and sold -- primarily to post-modern architects, cutting-edge decorators and well-heeled...
...this morning in Far Rockaway, the architecturals are still firmly attached to history. In the rubble-strewn grand hall that smells of ashes and mildew, Israel carefully pries at a piece of mahogany doorway molding. "You can't just come in and say, 'Hey, let's rip it down.' You have to get a feel for the construction," he says. "You have to ask if the craftsmen used nails, glue or screws...