Word: matchbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan's Pace Gallery. Included will be drawings that date back to the early 1960s, when he and other young artists were rebelling against the prevailing mode of abstract expression. Samaras' way of celebrating the long-ignored object was to summon up his disturbing Macedonian memories. Matchbook and spectacles, in a 1962 ink drawing, were depicted with the stark frontality of a Byzantine icon. Samaras also created silvery, pin-encrusted books and boxes that suggested silver reliquaries. They were packed with knives and razors, nails, stuffed birds and X rays of skulls trepanned by pins, together with photos...
...Between matchbook advertising copy and the immaculate fictions of Jorge Luis Borges, there comes a pause in a compulsive reader's occupations known as the literary curiosity. Casually indulged, it often reaffirms the battered belief that reading can be one of life's simpler pleasures...
...loves to discover things--anything; he collects new skills the way some people collect matchbook covers. He is the Ballantine Ale Man, a man whose smile is an expression of self-content and yet an acknowledgement of just how much there is left to do. He is the Man from the Marlboro Country--in black loafers instead of boots and straddling a seat in Widener, not a pinto on the lone prairie...
When told that she couldn't have "one of each," one woman started to take a BMG matchbook, hesitated, took one for Johnson, then asked if she could have the Goldwater one for her little boy. "He needs it for school," she explained...
FROM THE DESK OF L.B.J., OR THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE . . . The real guests, of course, spend the rest of the party trying to find out who were those fabulous people. The hostess merely lights a cigarette from the special matchbook and smiles...