Word: perches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through repetition the scene has become a classic: the sniper perched on a seemingly inaccessible rooftop, bodies littering the pavement below, a crowd of gawkers milling just out of range as the police wheel up their elite troops and latest weaponry to try to pry the lunatic from his perch...
...Baltic Sea, where he sails, plays tennis with his wife and examines the heavens through his portable telescope. But for five months this season, home is the hotels and motels of America. Lanky, high-domed and bespectacled, Tennstedt can be a vertiginous sight on the podium. He will perch precariously on his toes when all hands are playing furiously, or do a deep knee bend during tender moments. In his lexicon of body English, an avian flap of the elbow is as meaningful as a sword thrust of the baton. The fluid gestures may be idiosyncratic, but they rarely fail...
...work are by no means puritanical. They are florid souvenirs de voyage -in some cases, of an imaginary Africa-in the form of tents. The tents are not habitable. One, entitled Sudan, has no entrance; the gloomy space inside is occupied by a stuffed toucan on a perch, eerie blue in the half-light. The accessible space in Sahara, for all the breadth of the piece, is a small womblike pocket. La Luna and Asia Solo can not be entered at all. They are not so much environments, therefore, as three-dimensional paintings, and their subject is landscape: moons...
...Minute Warning is a movie full of clocks, not people. It is hardly enough that the sniper has hidden himself in an inaccessible perch above the stadium Scoreboard. From there, armed with his Remington 742, he can draw a fine bead through his telescopic sight on any of the 92,000 assembled fans, among whom are the mayor of L.A., the Governor of California, the President of the U.S. (who is en route) and Merv Griffin (who opens the football game by delivering the national anthem as if it were a carton of half-and-half). Not even all this...
...faintly tinged rose water." Ezra Pound was "humbug." Aldous Huxley, "in spats and grey trousers," proved eminently resistible. The elegant aphorist Logan Pearsall Smith left an impression of "perfect sentences of English prose served up in a muffin dish, over a bright fire, with the parrot on a perch...