Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Games -- 16 sculptures so far, a growing family. Each piece is a trunk, a dead tree salvaged from the dying forests of the Mazury Lakes region, 200 miles north of Warsaw. Abakanowicz works these trunks to a degree -- stripping the bark, smoothing out some excrescences with chain saw and hatchet and applying some surface treatment -- but she does not carve them beyond that. Each wrinkled bole with its splayed limbs and fissures keeps its tree-ness and does not become mere timber, raw material. Abakanowicz preserves the body of the tree, and then she fits this body with metal shells...
Still, some of the writing is just plain brilliant. In one scene, Oberon and Titania exchange some witty cereal puns: "Let's just be Frankenberry the hatchet," "Honey Comb home, (Although the tag-line--"Oh, Nut 'n' Honey"--is predictable...
...Boyle] told me the hatchet had been buried and had never been bared, but that's just not true", Taylor said, "I'm sorry it had to come down to this," he said...
...Weiss's bones, among other clues, Starrs concluded that it is more likely that the bodyguards themselves murdered their boss. Now Starrs wants to dig up the father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden, or at least their skulls, to find out whether Borden really did them in with a hatchet...
Friday: Molly Hatchet with The Enchanter, Stampede and Stone Blue. Tickets...