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OVERHEAD, the graffiti-bedecked subway trains clatter onward, dragging the sardined hordes of humanity away, in towards Manhattan. Down below, on the street--a saloon-infested, neon-gaudy strip called Roosevelt Ave., deep in the heart of Elmwood, Queens--the people muddle on, oblivious to the noise and to everything else. On the side streets beckon the bars, little Irish holes-in-the-wall where the Hugheses and McAfees gather to put away their beers and spill their guts, and flashy dives where the Puerto Ricans and Blacks, so new to the neighborhood, huddle in self-protection. This...
WALKING THE STREETS on a rainy Sunday night in October, everyone but you is taking care of business, old overcoats collars-turned-up, fedora brims turned-down-against-the-weather because only the rich junkies can score out of the rain stand beneath a blue neon sign that says Police Station #4, in a parka, soaking up the wet like a DuPont Cellulose sponge. Inside, the good guys are drinking coffee and munching doughnuts as you call a taxi...
Having stolen all the media's attention away from Velma who also used Flynn's tactics, Roxie marches brazenly to court, assured that her celebrity status will not only insure acquittal, but that she will be able to plaster her own name across the country in big, bright neon vaudeville marquee in New York...
...Rauschenberg, the Pop artists in the '60s-to alarm and stimulate the French. Thus the puritan Yankee paying his awkward homages to Matisse's sensuality was replaced, in the commedia dell'arte, by the French Pop artist in his new-faded denims gazing raptly on the neon of Times Square...
...exhibit includes a scale model of a large work called "Neon Sky Event." "Event" is a perfect description of this piece: the 300-foot, bright orange version must be thrilling as it revolves in the night...