Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impossible to buy a loaf of bread in Hanover, N.H., this morning. The barber shop and the drug store are closed. Every man, woman and college student in that sickeningly quaint little hamlet has packed his sleeping bag, liter of vodka and can of green spray paint, bundled into his green down jacket and headed south to (and, oh, how I hate this) "Hahvahd" for a weekend of merriment...
...Dartmouth students are good losers or bad losers--they get out of town too fast. Your stereo will be cleaned off, your roommate will have washed off the green, the guy who slept in your kitty litter last night will be gone and he'll take his spray paint with...
...Owen Davis) is little-known, though it was successful on Broadway in the 1930s and again on a rief tour in the '70s But while those productions demanded an elaborate naturalistic set--not the Ex's style, to be sure--director Bill Rausch is exploring the effects of gray paint and suspended bare trees (borrowed from the Harvard Forest) to create the "cold, stagnant environment where nothing ever changes"--the one usually associated with Wharton's spare style...
...bien. Quite properly, Alberto Giacometti's wiry bronze isolates are given a room to themselves, and it is the most august room in the show. Yet there are surprises-notably the suite of "hostages" by Jean Fautrier, human presences rendered down into a thick anonymous protein of paint, which were exhibited in Paris just after the Liberation (with a catalogue preface by André Malraux) and are still among the most striking images of pathos and mute, intractable survival that the war evoked from the West. The monochromes of Yves Klein, a curiously underrated compound of Duchampian dandy...
...time for the 1981-82 Harvard basketball season, and I have a solution. I live less than a mile from Harvard Square and I have a hoop (with a new net) in my driveway. Would the team like to play there until its new home is ready? I can paint a stripe on for the foul line, so let me know. --A Solution from Somerville...