Word: lintel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though. Not anymore. It's a funny thing--from Lafayette Park, one need only walk about 50 feet to find a concrete building with a brass lintel reading UPI as clearly as the label on the Teletype machine. The building is almost as useless. Once employing more than a thousand reporters around the globe, today UPI's staff is scarcely more than 100. UPI staple Helen Thomas, the senior White House correspondent, nearly 80 years old herself, gets up to be at the White House at 5:30 in the morning, to write stories no one will read...
...paintings carry stories, but only in their titles. The blue lintel and green tongue of paint in Gossip, 1994-95, are not going to tell you what the gossip was about. Dinner in Palazzo Albrizzi, 1984-88, commemorates a meal prepared at an art dealer's lodgings during the Venice Biennale 12 years ago, but Hodgkin's cadmium red extravaganza, with its broad serpentine shapes buttressed by planks of green, does not offer the slightest clue about the food, the company or the room...
...hold to the low lintel...