Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moral Absolutes. Jumpers begins at a surreal party. A girl swings back and forth over the stage as she performs a denture-defying striptease. Some lemon-clad gymnasts, called Jumpers, do flips and build pyramids. A shot flings one Jumper out of his pyramid. It seems to be a gag until he bleeds. Next day the cadaver turns up in the bedroom of ex-Singer Dotty Moore, at whose party he was mysteriously murdered. A good deal of esprit de corpse ensues until the poor chap is lugged away by his fellow Jumpers in a huge plastic bag. The deceased...
...longer live on the altiplano, but it is still cold at night and food is far from plentiful. Shipped in hugh quantities from the jungle, the coca sells for incredibly cheap prices; a peso (five U.S. cents) will buy you a six-ounce bag. The women sit implacably behind pyramid-like piles of the leaves, and, if one looks closely enough, it is possible to see them move the coca wads from one side of the mouth to the other. As I walked by, one woman, just setting up her small portable stove to cook lunch, spit some...
...works are all fired clay--some utilitarian crowd-pleasing bowls and vases, others more aesthetic and esoteric. Her work is centered on the idea that geometric shapes can grow into organic bodies. One piece looks like a horse's head resting on a three dimensional triangle; another resembles a pyramid changing into a flamingo. Though these creations were assembled especially for this presentation--most have been made since September--they nevertheless lack the group coherence and consistency that should characterize a professional show. Her pieces reflect a young hard-working artist who has not yet found a definite style...
...State and Egyptian President Sadat met the press after three hours of talks, the cordiality between the two men was plainly visible. "I hope to see you soon," said Kissinger in farewell. Replied Sadat: "You are welcome always." Then, after lunch, the Secretary was driven off to see the pyramids. Once again a crowd of shoving, shouting photographers dogged his steps. After vanishing inside the Great Pyramid, he finally emerged and waved to the crowd below. "Henry's looking it over," said one member of his staff. "He wants to build one for himself...
...isolate Watergate as a separate problem," says Aaron M. Kohn, director of the metropolitan crime commission in New Orleans. "It's the peak of a pyramid that covers all 50 states. All of the ingredients of Watergate are merely a reflection of things we have tolerated too long throughout the political system." Says Fred Hand Sr., a Georgia farmer and banker who was speaker of the Georgia house for eight years: "Anyone who has run a political campaign on a state level knows that if everything he did were uncovered he could be put on a chain gang...