Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...studied reclusiveness, Wyeth once described himself as "a secretive bastard." He destroys much of his work or paints over the temperas. "Sometimes," he says, "there are four or five pictures under the painting." He claims he has even placed some watercolors in metal tubes and buried them. "I think of Captain Kidd's buried treasure. They may find it and they may not." But Wyeth had never buried a treasure so rich, or for so long, as the Helga booty. According to one source, the artist would roll a Helga picture inside some other work, then transport...
...London production's metaphoric intentions are evident the moment the audience sees the backdrop. A lurid, scrawled red line divides a vista of white-capped mountains and a blue sky with clouds from a rough black collage below, inset with garbage cans, pails, tires and a metal ladder -- the dregs beneath the American Dream. Superimposed are slides announcing the year as the play moves forward from the Crash into World War II and briefly into 1968 and beyond. The cast of 19 enact dozens of the dispossessed, from a desperate Southern sheriff no longer receiving a paycheck to college boys...
...note. The ironic revelation is his specialty: "Uncle Frank . . . had confidence in himself and had acquired important skills. We knew that because just a week ago he had been giving evidence . . . as a witness for the Prosecution. His expert field was the identification and valuation of non-ferrous scrap metal . . . It must have been at about that time, I think, that he began his remarkably long career as an embezzler." The failed playwright remembers his debut: "After the first act I wanted very much to leave." A colleague gives him "the job of editing a disastrous manuscript he had just...
This icon of freedom is burnished by a new national confidence--but its metal skin is less than an inch thick. The inside of Lady Liberty is dark and hollow...
...behind the window at Out of Town News may be a little confused when the line of mohawked punks and long-haired heavy metal-heads is replaced by pinstriped, balding middle-aged men with briefcases, trying to buy a ticket for the grand finale of Harvard's 350th celebration...