Word: huts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than their masters would prefer-even when their masters happen to be in the military. Samer's father is a lieutenant colonel in the P.L.O.; he controls the joint Palestinian-Lebanese forces in the region of Tyre. At the moment, Colonel Azmi controls his forces from a grass hut on stilts standing over an area bombed out by Israel last summer. The hut is furnished with red leather chairs and a Swedish-modern desk, behind which Colonel Azmi, 40, smokes Winstons and makes pronouncements...
...deported bears inevitably show up in Churchill again, having trekked back at speeds up to 30 miles a day. Next year Churchill plans a different tactic: obstreperous bears will simply be locked up for a few weeks in sturdy concrete-and-steel cages inside an abandoned Quonset hut. During their brief captivity, they will need no care other than some watering. Finally, when Hudson Bay starts freezing and the bears begin to think passionately about chasing seals on the ice, they can be safely released. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Ed Ogle/Churchill
...siding and a bow window on a two-story cottage. Not too far away, in Chicago itself, a small house was rusticated, to use architects' jargon, by applying synthetic stone siding to the entire facade. The result was not unlike that of an Alpine goat-herder's hut. Archie Bunker may seem like a conformist, but he is, a heart, an individualist who rebels against uniformity not of his own making. He considers it his right to paint his house coral or plaid if he wants to, much as he would tattoo his biceps or select an inscription...
...fragmentary figures, headless torsos, isolated arms or legs. But then one is reminded that this, in Rodin's own day, was ceaselessly guyed by satirists as literal mutilation; so much so that during the Turkish atrocities in Armenia, one French cartoonist drew some observers in front of a hut festooned with severed limbs, exclaiming, "What fine models for Rodin!" Presumably this lopsided equation of the fictive violence of art with the real violence of history is meant to hover, in quotes, above Kitaj's nude; but it seems very contrived...
...make some Americans claustrophobic, but cross-cultural comparison might also remind them to be grateful for what they have It might encourage them, as well, to shift their perspectives outward a little, to conceive of themselves less as isolated units more as communities. It is not the individual hut that has cultural force and meaning, but the village as a whole, tl sum of our larger arrangements as a tribe. -By Lance Morrow