Word: nacreous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dibbets, 36, is preoccupied with landscape: flat swaths of beach horizon, photographed in nacreous blues and grays, enlarged, tilted and cut together in the form of mountains or-in this show-the curving tail of a comet. They are, in effect, "impossible" earthworks, or sky works, meant solely as configurations on paper: a simplistic idea, but carried out with elegance...
...fool." Trout has been invited to give a speech at the Midland City Festival of the Arts, and he hitchhikes to Midland City. He arrives on the wrong side of town and wades through a polluted creek that leaves his feet sealed in a coating of liquid plastic. Defiantly nacreous-footed, he wanders on into the motel cocktail lounge where Dwayne Hoover, after several drinks, staggers up to him and cries: "Give me the message! The message, please." Kilgore Trout thrusts forth one of his 117 unsuccessful novels, whose message is, "You are the only creature in the entire universe...