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...Johns's images share one common denominator: initially they are flat, two-dimensional subject matter. Most modern art since Manet has brought three-dimensional images closer and closer to the picture plane, like noses pressed against a window pane. Johns is totally uninterested in the game of perspective; his interest is in the surface of the canvas and in putting instantly recognizable symbols through rigorous permutations. He slathers and slurries his images with a random, painterly stroke reminiscent of the abstract expressionists. He rubs sterile graphic images in an artist's saucy delight of texture...
Unable to open the elevator door, the woman (Olivia) presses the panic button. In the service street behind the house an alarm begins to jangle. A drunken derelict hears it, wanders up to the kitchen door, peeks in, sees a bottle of wine vinegar, deliriously smashes a window pane, enters the house and goes staggering through it in search of liquid plunder...
...apartment. This five-flight walk-up (six counting the outdoor stoop) in an East 40s Manhattan brownstone is a one-room void with annexes: a postage-stamp bedroom sans bed, a bathroom sans tub, a radiator that has chosen February not to work, and a skylight with a missing pane for snow that wants to come in out of the snow. As a proper young lawyer, Paul has qualms about the place, but he is still inclined to be playful: "I'll come home early and we'll wallpaper each other...
Knight and I walked by a liquor store. The manager was replacing a cracked window pane with plywood, shaking his head, apparently done at last and forever with glass...
...Cook. "They were sweating up a storm." Dr. Cook roared back: "Haven't you got in the house yet?" The landlady told Dr. Cook to hang up so she could get the maid to call the fire department. Then she grabbed a hammer herself. She .broke a small pane in the door and reached in to release the latch. Intense heat blasted into her face. "It was just like opening the door to a furnace," she said...