Word: moonlighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century by Peto and Harnett, Shaw casts objects-playing cards, books, tin cans, ax handles-in porcelain and then glazes them into a more than photographic accuracy of surface. Sometimes, though not often enough, a flash of real poetry appears in the midst of Shaw's virtuoso pedantry. Moonlight Goose, 1978, with its loving simulations of flaking paint and marbled paper, attains a wistful charm almost worthy of Joseph Cornell...
...beach near the mainland Chinese village of Gezhou, code named "Mike," looked deserted in the moonlight. Just offshore, in a glassy South China sea, a crew member on the seagoing tugboat Michael signaled inland with three sharp flashes of a hand-held light. Almost immediately, three answering flashes came from the shadowy trees at the edge of the 300-yd. beach. Suddenly, hundreds of figures swarmed silently down to the water's edge, where they had a brief and emotional rendezvous with their foreign visitors. The long-awaited and highly covert task that evening: unloading and distributing more than...
...movie was. The pedestrian in the black coat says he's glad he saw it: "Sort of a relic thing." The jet, previously seen, is now some 600 miles out to sea, heading presumably for Europe. A passenger looking down now would see nothing but black water in the moonlight...
Complicated, but charming nonetheless. And there have also been flashes of true American wit over the years, with Congressman John Randolph of Virginia comparing an adversary to "rotten mackerel by moonlight; he shines and stinks," or dealing with his public...
...hammerklavier. Ida, the oldest girl, is given charge of her baby sister. When she grows inattentive, faceless creatures steal in and exchange the child for a simulacrum made of ice. Frantic, Ida climbs backward out her window and into the sky, tumbling through worlds of arbors and harbors, moonlight and lamplight, irrevocable loss and paradise regained. In the end the villainous goblins are revealed as babies, but in the author's view this makes them no less terrifying: What could be more incessant and demanding than an infant? At each turn, Sendak provides illustrations that refer to-and bear...