Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best of the color silk-screen paintings, like Retroactive I, 1964, are such soaring bel canto that one is apt to skip over the odd resonance of their images. Consider the red patch in the lower right corner: a silk-screen enlargement of a stroboscopic photo by Gjon Mili of a walking nude, done in imitation of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which was itself based on an earlier sequential photo by Marey. The image stutters backward through technological time. But then it also looks like the grief-stricken Adam and Eve in Masaccio's Expulsion from Eden...
Tall, thin Thomas Fitzgerald, 19, a junior at Queens College, stood in the crisp night air on Indian Island, a 50-acre patch of scrub just 50 feet off Long Island's South Shore. From his neck, in front of his chest, hung a strip of 2-by-4 wood, 20 inches long. On it was scrawled "P.O.W." Fitzgerald, a member of the St. John's University Reserve Officers Training Corps program (Queens College has no ROTC unit) was trying to get into the corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were...
Bitter Defeat. The agreement was not only a victory for Assad but a bitter defeat for Arafat, whose fighting units are now all but immobilized. Nonetheless, the Syrian President and the P.L.O. leader have already moved to patch up relations. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn learned in Damascus that the two men met in the Syrian capital last week and agreed that hard-line "rejectionist" elements in the Palestinian movement -notably George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -must be eliminated to ensure peace...
...hermits. My window probably served the original owners as a door: notches have been cut in the rock face leading up to it. But I came in the back way, and wandered through dark and clammy passageways that occasionally opened into dark and clammy rooms, until I saw a patch of light up ahead. Careful not to bump my head, I approached it, drawn as a moth to a flame. When I got here, I sat down and waited for my eyes to adjust...
Perhaps the Fenway magic was captured--or portrayed, rather, since it may be impossible to capture--best in the sixth game of last year's World Series, a contest that Globe columnist Ray Fitzgerald described as "a Beethoven symphony played on a patch of grass in Boston's Back...