Word: refrozen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pinkness of the rabbit is the rosiness of human nudity, and Lopez sets down every detail of it with an exact balance between detachment and anxiety. Nothing that can be seen is skimped--not even the freezer burns on the meat (which, Lopez explains, thawed and had to be refrozen dozens of times over the months of painting it) or the frosty, glaucous eye, staring at nothing. It is still life in the non-English sense, nature morte, "dead nature." In the hands of a melodramatic or cheaply "humanistic" artist, this rabbit would have been a pretext for the pathetic...
...Staleness kills ice cream, and natural brands, such as Breyers or Häagen-Dazs, to some extent become unnatural when they are shipped across the country and stored for too many weeks. Ice crystals form and texture coarsens when any ice cream is melted even slightly and then refrozen...