Word: patios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...utterly unintellectual, who can baffle Europeans. He claims without regret that his mental development stopped at 19. When he says he is not satirizing the amiable suburban householders of Poltergeist, who never turn off their television set, he means it. He has no quarrel with subdivisions, polyester, freeways, patio living, junk food for belly or mind, or people who sometimes seem to be cassette-recorded copies of each other. His lively mind grew out of such a mulch...
...late afternoon at Canyon Ranch, "America's first total vacation/fitness resort." The sun slants across the roofs of the patio homes strung out across the desert, tinting the Santa Catalina Mountains, lengthening the shadows of the giant saguaro cacti...
...city to celebrate his country's "victory" in the 1973 war. It was hardly a popular party, understandably, and not one Israeli Cabinet minister was present, but the ambience was congenial as the guests?a sprinkling of ambassadors, some journalists, a handful of academics?sipped drinks on the patio. Then U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis arrived and took Mortada away from the reception line...
...somebody went out and really broke his ass to try and put up a structure in a village and then was told he couldn't have cement today because the, province chief wants to build a new patio, and knows if he complains he's going to get shot or put in jail on some trumped-up charge, after a while he says. "Fuck it, why bother...
...repeatedly swings a hammer. Whatever its meaning, this piece is visually more interesting than the "environment" that greets one on the fourth floor of the Whitney, Robert Wilson's chic '20s-style set for his short piece of dramatic gibberish from 1977, / Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating. With Borofsky, at least, you do think you are hallucinating. But then, why should a stage set not be "sculpture"? In the Whitney, pretty well anything that isn't flat or a photograph can be classified as sculpture, like Scott Burton...