Word: railroaded
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...Along a railroad track in a ravine in Canyoncito, N. Mex., just north of the Lamy train station, there have been occasional sightings of curious apparitions. On this gloomy Sunday, passengers on the Southwest Chief have & been warned to keep their eyes open. Their train will be passing through Canyoncito between 2 and 3 in the afternoon...
...ravine the sky is overcast, and rain appears imminent. Two women emerge from a red Datsun pickup parked under the railroad trestle. A golden retriever stands guard by their side. Victoria Cross, 36, pulls on a long, flowing green-velvet mask that is sewn to a wrangler's hat. The mask has many gourds hanging from it. Sherie Hartle, 35, is putting on a white mask that resembles a death's-head. The masks are frightening; they are right out of a peyote dream...
...place that I could tell my parents I was going," says Jeff M. King '88. "So my girlfriend and I would constantly go to the Electric Light Room, a preppy arcade that sold milkshakes, or to the Beehive, a burn-out, sleazy arcade that was seriously across the railroad tracks, and we'd always play Caterpillar. Of course sometimes we'd just go to the park and make out. But now whenever I play Caterpillar I remember...
...time to turn off Vermont's Interstate 91 into White River Junction. White River is an old railroad town and, as some old-timers brag, an old bootlegging town, an old red-light town. Those glories are long gone, and just now it is simply an old town, at the confluence of the White and Connecticut rivers. The surrounding country is some of the handsomest in New England, but there is a scuffling, head-down quality to South Main Street, out by the Legion hall. It is just the place for a brewery, though the last of the old breweries...
...appropriation": the copying and scavenging of images and stylistic packages, or even of whole works, from other art and the mass media. Works like Footmen, 1986, are palimpsests: some grainy silkscreens a la Warhol, a head roughly quoted from a 17th century Spanish painting, a figure leaning over a railroad bridge, a scrawled yellow outline of a girl in hot pants. They suggest narrative but deliver none...