Word: oblong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usually claustrophobic. Greenhouse structures with glass panels open the entrances to natural light. Unfortunately, the artists seem to have conspired to ruin this effect. William Wainwright's plans to build a series of giant mobiles to hang from the glass roof seem misdirected. Although Wainwright's compositions of oblong chrome and reflecting prisms would be great in Boston-Boston, one wonders what they'll add to the station. Carolos Dorrien's granite wall piece stands nearby, looking strangely uncomfortable for an inanimate object...
...good cartoon book is an oblong entirely surrounded by laughter. Among the merriest: Stop Trying to Cheer Me Up! by Frank Modell. One of the most versatile of The New Yorker's cartoonists, Modell is equally at home with animal gags (Pan using a unicorn horn for a corkscrew) and domestic explosions (father to a small boy who has nailed his Christmas stocking upside down: "You call that hung by the chimney with care?"). The Book of Terns by Peter Delacorte and Michael C. Witte is something else again. Every conceivable pun on the bird-word tern is illustrated...
...close available comparison. This is not to say, however, that while influenced by the same man, the photographers appear in any way related to one another. Arbus's portraits of human oddities bear little resemblance to Alston Purvis' color details of plain doorways and windows other than the similar oblong shape of their frames. As the catalogue to the exhibit states, "Each one saw a slightly different side to the man, and Evans was a master at revealing different qualities to different people." The key to the success of these two shows lies in their inescapably intertwined relationship. The juxtaposition...
Playwright Tally's approach is chronological and documentary, but he never gets icebound by his research. A back cloth of ghostly white covers the entire rear wall, and the floor has a bleak, blinding pallor. The sled carrying supplies and scientific instruments is a gray oblong mass to be pushed and pulled by the men like a cursed rock of Sisyphus...
Objects ranging from oblong dice from the Cameroons to mortars and pestles for grinding are all part of the collection of African artifacts being re-sorted and consolidated at the Peabody Museum...