Word: linoleums
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...realize how old-fashioned the subject matter of cubism was. Picasso or Braque's still lifes, with their tilted cafe tables, guitars, fruit and playing cards, were scarcely different as subjects from those of Caravaggio or Chardin. Despite a few contemporary intrusions (newspaper headlines, printed tickets, linoleum), the subjects of cubism were classical, traditional. They ignored the technology, whose scale, speed, ingenuity and arrogant newness so captivated poets like Guillaume Apollinaire, Filippo Marinetti and Blaise Cendrars, or painters like Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia -and Delaunay. The machine culture extolled by these early modernists of the Belle Epoque...
...Speculum Linoleum starring Jane Starkman, violin, Steven Drury, piano, Susan Crain, flute, David Schulemberg, keyboard, and Doug Davis, clarinet appear in concert. Dunster House Library...
WHEN IT WAS all over, Bruce and I cleaned up all the shit that the dancers and drinkers had left behind. No one had gone through more than half a can of beer (Knickerbocker is awful), and the 400 square feet of white linoleum had been left tatooed with brew-begrimed footprints, fliptops everywhere, and the remnants of cigarette butts. We were both still real stoned, and with lights suddenly on the mops in our hands, the white room seemed clinical, even institutional. So we swabbed it with mops and a great grey steel pail, periodically cleaning the mops under...
Inside, the Paradise Cafe is cramped and dim, furnished with an erratic array of small wooden and linoleum-topped tables. There's a juke box pressed against the front wall that a cluster of waifs and their serene elders stray in to dance around. The bar is on the periphery of Central Square, fairly close to MIT, and it's frequented by locals, mostly, with a sprinkling of students. From the stools under the television a string of posters of the likes of Tiny Tim, W.C. Fields and Jack Palladine is visible, although it is hidden from the opposite side...
...some, it began late Tuesday night, after Gowdy and Garagiola, Stockton and Harrelson, had retired from the airwaves. It began on the gum-stained linoleum floors of Logan Airport's United Airlines terminal, with a sleeping bag or blanket, a six pack, and a homemade banner or an old sheet. The faithful, the hardcore faithful, were there all night...