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...After the GSD leaves, Robinson will have to be renovated before we can inhabit the hall," Bailyn said, "Although an architect has been hired for the job, we're not sure how long it will take. It could run on into the fall...
...form that works both aesthetically and structurally. Di Suvero proceeds by trial and error, bracing and rigging the parts until they work. Few modern sculptors have submitted their creations to such rigorous tests of their reality. Either the 30-ft. braces stand up or they collapse. They inhabit a narrow and exhilarating area of risk and give the same pleasure that rises from a daring work of engineering. His devotion to "rightness" gives his work a curiously moral edge. It is existential sculpture, the way that Norman Mailer's best novels and reportage are existential writing...
...that he adapted the means of production of soup cans to the way he produced paintings, turning them out en masse-consumer art mimicking the process as well as the look of consumer culture. This was a startling act of confrontation. Here, Warhol was saying, is the world you inhabit but do not see. High art is your escape route from its crudities. But why escape? Why not accept it as your cultural ground, he demanded, since "pop art is liking things." Says Andy with utter sincerity: "I want to be a machine" -which to him means never to make...
...ruled on the basis of a hand-picked electorate; martial law was imposed after an outbreak of rioting in 1969. During those years, Pakistan was divided by more than geography. Physically and psychologically, the 58 million tall, light-skinned people of the west identified with the Islamic peoples who inhabit the arc of land stretching as far as Turkey. The smaller, darker East Pakistanis seemed to belong more to the world of South and Southeast Asia. More divisive yet was the fact that the westerners monopolized the government and the army and dominated the nation's commercial life...
...play. Blind, unable to stand, he is wheeled about and catered to by Clov, who irrationally obeys him though constantly threatening to leave. Hamm keeps his parents, Nagg and Nell, in barrels from which their heads occasionally appear to reminisce, tell a joke, listen to Hamm. The characters inhabit a world going dead. They have run out of bicycle wheels, sugar plums, and worst of all, pain killers. They pass the time running through stale old stories and pointless dialogues as their only protection against the death outside...