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...don’t have the time,” Blair says. “Trying to organize games, reserve the field, get all the equipment together—and then to find underclassmen who will be willing to take on that mantle?? it’s nearly impossible...
Casual fans have never heard of him, but Silvera has his own following. He was close friends with Mickey Mantle??“Nice guy, great ballplayer” Silvera says of the Mick—and warmed up Don Larsen before his legendary perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Silvera even played with Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee link from the Gehrig/Ruth days to the fifties and sixties of Mickey Mantle...
Some projects, like the Dr. Seuss mural in the kitchen, were probably a planned group effort. Others—like the cheddar-cheese labels in the shape of a flower that stick to the fridge or the lumpy root displayed on the mantle??seem to have been done purely on the spur of the moment...
...paint layers, (a derivative of the direct color technique he learned from Oskar Kokoschka), these paintings glow with blues worthy of Picasso’s Blue Period and warm coppers worthy of Georgia O’Keefe’s canyons. In works like “The Mantle?? and “Tuscan Shadows” Ablow’s objects are suffused with a ghostly iridescence. The color in the smaller gouaches, however, is not as successful, and the glaring colors sometimes clash in a muddy jumble...
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