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...Hopper's city painting had been written by Melville in the first pages of Moby Dick: "Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries ... But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone...
...centuries succeeds in transcending the limits of arrogance set in his first two books. If he had something thoughtful to say, Robbins might be pardoned for relegating fiction to the role of facade for his musings. But the container he constructs with his la-dee-da plot and plaster-mold characters cannot bear the weight of his philosophical spoutings. The ideas strain to be released until the storyline can no longer bear the pressure, and at the end of the novel the bottom falls...
Where can a sculptor find bronze, steel or plaster without union approval? How can a painter get access to studio space, even paints and canvas? How and where can the work be exhibited? How can anyone hear about it except by word of mouth, since all art writing in magazines like Iskusstvo (Art) or Sovietskaya Kultura is a direct emanation of union views, themselves determined by the Ministry of Culture...
...surrealistic, a study in black and white, like a page out of an Aldous Huxley novel." Photographer Bill Thompson observed the effects of the volcanic cloud as it reached eastern Washington. Said he: "It was the bees that scared me, weighed down with ash. They staggered around like plaster casts of them selves, leaving wavering tracks on the dirty white blanket...
...capture those people, the has-beens, stillares, will-bes and never-weres spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, degrade themselves in public, shake the hands of people they don't know or care to know, plaster friendly if sickly grins on their faces and fit themselves into a mold designed to "maximize" appeal. Little is sacred, because though the sacrifices are great, the reward--a pot of political gold--casts a spell not easily resisted...