Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...housewife in Manila when the Japanese invaded the Philippines in December 1941. She, her husband Jerry, an owner of a gas station and an insurance agency, and their two children, aged twelve and ten, were interned for three years at Camp Holmes, a former police barracks in the mountains near Baguio. As prisoners, they were far better off than captured GIs. The mountain site offered healthfully low temperatures and country-club scenery, and for most of the war was not even enclosed by a fence. Prisoners ate as well as guards, and the Japanese carefully protected Red Cross shipments from...
...tables are like Japanese gardens. As the raked sand of the garden provides an oceanic "world surface" from which the chosen rocks protrude like continents, so the polished surfaces of his table-top sculpture conjure an imagined plain whose sudden rearings and swellings can be seen as mountains or waves. The protrusions seem to heave themselves up, violently, out of the serene surface-an effect emphasized by a sudden change of texture from polished to roughly pecked stone. That, too, is a metaphor of larger geological events: in some real landscapes the mountain does not rise; the softer plain around...
...short sword) impressed in the stone, as though the granite were wax. But, in general, landscape is the sole image, and its core is the stone itself, with its obdurate beauty, dark crystalline structure and archaic associations with ritual and shelter. As a result, a piece like Double Red Mountain, 1969, functions both as a highly stylized image of Zen landscape and as a more Western object, tinged with surrealist fantasy, and mixing, in similar proportions, body, altar and stone...
Sammy woke Rick and they began again. Snow sat at the top of the mountains and Sammy and Rick imagined they were skiing instead of driving. They coasted down one mountain and crawled up the next until they were both hungry and the car wanted...
Behind the corrugated grocery store, three horses mosied against a wire fence. Straw wisps floated from a bale mountain stacked against the slatted outhouse. Sammy reached over the wire and stroked the palamino's muzzle. Get some hay, he called to Rick and Rick stooped to gather a handful of hay. Feed him, said Sammy with one eye on Rick and the other on the horse. You do it, Rick whined. Sammy held the hay to the horse's smile while it lapped his palm. The other horses whinnied and crowded closer before Sammy and Rick headed across the dirt...