Word: sanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BORIS MARGO-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. In Memoriam, one of Margo's "sculptured canvases," is a tall (eight-foot) tribute to President Kennedy. On canvas stretched over wood, the artist traced an elaborate calligraphy with sand. At first it seems to be Sanskrit, but on study English words emerge. Other pieces, of varying shape and material, employ other languages. Through June...
Huge chunks of granite, some weighing as much as 15 tons, toppled in a steady, clattering stream into the greasy green water below the crude escarpment. Three red-painted vibrators, as tall as ten-story buildings, sent their yards-long steel fingers combing through sand that gushed from giant tubes. Then, suddenly, there was silence. High on a granite crag overlooking the scene, two men pressed two tiny buttons. A muffled explosion sent rock whirling into the sky, and as the smoke cleared the River Nile changed its course for the first time under the hand...
...time when the Bahamas and the rest of the West Indies are suffering from creeping civilization -even on the best powder beaches, people no longer lie on the sand but on chaise longues, swim not in the ocean but in shoreside swimming pools, at night prefer the soft mechanical thunder of the air conditioner to the sound of the tropical breeze through the palms-Burke offers the uncertain pleasure of putting the escapist back in touch with elemental nature...
...though, the film exploits the malaise it pretends to examine, and the drama becomes sociosexual cheesecake, an oversized slice of Danish blue. The camera records what the characters do, but offers few insights into the individuals or the society that produced them. Cruelly stomping down a child's sand castle, raising hob in a roadhouse, or pairing off at random, they seem little more than anonymous delinquents-the kind of blank, boisterous folk that cause the family trade to gather up their towels and baskets and move to a nice quiet spot at the far end of the beach...
...dummies with movable limbs to fill their places at lights-out. One man stands watch at the cell door with a periscope fashioned from a toothbrush and a shard of mirror. A piece of a metal bunk serves as a digging tool. Two stolen medicine bottles filled with sand make an hourglass to time the long, seemingly hopeless task of chipping through concrete sewer walls and treacherous rock. On the afternoon of the last day before the escape, Gaspard is suddenly called to the warden's office. Two hours later he returns to the cells, insisting he has said...