Word: hodgkins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing up in the Oklahoma dust, of Joe DiMaggio's icy remoteness, of Casey Stengel's Old Perfessor act that slipped on and off like a warmup jacket, of Billy Martin's violent insecurities, of the Hodgkin's disease that killed his father and afflicts his son. There is considerably more than towel snapping here. At the age of 54, it seems, Mickey Mantle has finally grown...
...fashion). A deliberately cartoonish image by Kenny Scharf sports edges decked with plastic dinosaurs and rockets. Larger-than-life wooden silhouettes - two birds, for instance, or a garland of branches - shoot up around the landscapes of Alan Herman. More established figures are also working in the same vein. Howard Hodgkin, whose canny strokes of pigment hint at enclosed views, sweeps paint across the frame to twit its pretensions as the final proscenium...
...Like Hodgkin, some artists are not so much working on the frame as working past it. They spill color across its borders to reject its entrenched authority. Others are working with decorative attachments and sculptural effects, not mocking the frame but embracing it, to restore a bit of the heraldic function that frames sometimes filled in the past...
While working in Chicago in the early '70s, Tartikoff discovered that he had Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer that he survived after more than a year of radiation treatments and chemotherapy. He worked straight through it, but the experience made him realize that "you're not given an unlimited time on this earth, and you shouldn't fritter it away." Tartikoff does not look like a man given to frittering as he flings out nonstop ideas, jots his notes and takes aim at the No. 1 slot in the ratings. Says he: "I think...
...people did something nobody ever did before in this country," he allowed. "They got a horse in a well and got it out alive." Later that winter Bertha Donaldson fell ill and had to be evacuated by Bush Pilot Sheldon. Soon she. was back, not knowing that her illness, Hodgkin's disease, would some day cause her to leave Alaska and would eventually take her life. In the early spring she wrote in her journal, "I've never seen such a March in my life. The only thing I heard yesterday was a robin. Sometimes...