Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ensconced at the center of his maze of companies like a pear-shaped Minotaur, Lloyd seemed, until lately, to have created an impregnable position for himself. But next fall Marlborough goes to court to defend itself in a civil suit almost without precedent in the art world. The heirs of the late abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, together with the New York State attorney general, are charging that Marlborough and the executors of Rothko's estate conspired between them to defraud the estate by grossly undervaluing the paintings...
...while The Last of Sheila promises to turn into an amusing maze...
...independent commission for policing national elections, limit campaign spending to 100 per voter, repeal the equal-time provision of the Federal Communications Act to encourage broadcasters to provide more free air time for presidential candidates, and forbid the channeling of campaign contributions from a single donor through a maze of dummy committees...
...pole and attached it to a 2-ft.-long cutting tool similar to pruning shears, they untangled the long, snaking umbilical cords that provided them with oxygen and a communications link to Skylab and Mission Control. Then, as the sun reappeared, they began to make their way through the maze of trusses on Skylab's telescope mount, circled part way around the outside of the cylindrical airlock module and finally arrived within pole's reach of the jammed solar wing...
...madness. The dreams, if they are indeed dreams, have long since passed nightmarish intensity, though they began innocently enough. The first took me to a benighted, strange city of shuttered houses with sway-backed gambrel roofs that I dimly recognized as Providence, R.I. As I moved through the maze of twisting, whisper-haunted streets, I realized that I seemed to be inexplicably pulled to a preordained destination-the Swan Point Cemetery. There I was drawn in particular to one granite tomb, on which the human eye could discern under the fungoid moon these chiseled letters...