Word: icon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police also recovered a glided bronze figure of the god of death worth $35,000, as well as a seventh-century Indian ivory-hilted sword, a silver casket, a russian icon, and a religious panel painting of St. Michael...
Over oceans, landmasses and treetops the Moon now takes her dander through the darkness, to lenses a ruined world lying in its own rubbish, but still to the naked eye the Icon of all mothers, for never shall second thoughts succumb our first-hand feelings, our only redeeming charm, our childish drive to wonder: spaced about the firmament, planets and constellations still officiously declare the glory of God, though known to be uninfluential...
...throughout Latin America, it will be assimilated into the national, Western-like culture the cities represent. The children of the women who speak Indian tongues in the markets of LaPaz are learning Spanish and the metric system. The Mexican workers who come to Mexico City to pray to an icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe will soon take the eucharist and mouth their pleas to a transubstantiated God. The tiny craftsmen of Quito, Ecuador, who sell shoes, hats and cabinets in front rooms of their houses will soon be replaced by mass-producing factories...
...sculptures look imposing. Here they might as well be garden gnomes. Not so with the work of David Smith, represented by ten sculptures across the lawn. But then Smith's work was always conceived in terms of landscape or, more exactly, the heroic domination of landscape by icon; it is essentially outdoor and declamatory sculpture. Thus the silver tracery left by Smith's disc grinder on the stainless steel only comes alive in sunlight; spotlights kill it. Smith's constructions of forged and welded iron, like Wagon II, 1964, also force themselves on the out-of-doors...
Fonda may now have to don steel-rimmed glasses before he can draw a bead on his targets, but he is still a great American presence, an icon to be reckoned with. The blond, blue-eyed Hill blends the spirit of a devilish boy with an adult's competence in the hard moments of a hard trade. You half expect him to pull a toad out of his holster, and you never quite believe that he can draw thrice in the time it takes ordinary men to draw once. And you shouldn't. For this...