Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their dialogue resembled something out of a Laurel and Hardy sketch...
...Activities Committee and trying him for contempt of Congress for refusing to denounce fellow leftists. Miller was catholic in his choice of antagonists, clashing just as fiercely with Communists and hoarding spiteful anecdotes about characters ranging from "Lucky" Luciano to Norman Mailer. Among the more mean-spirited is his sketch of Frank Lloyd Wright, drowsy at 90, commissioned to plan a country house and proposing something vast, costly and impractical, including a suspended swimming pool requiring "heavy construction on the order of the Maginot Line...
...teetering bicyclist, Mondrian solemnly turning like a mantis on the dance floor) and the nuanced and obviously slow way it was presented. But in these paintings this incongruity becomes extreme. None are done from life, and yet some figures have an undeniable veracity, the feeling of a life sketch that argues a lot of preliminary drawing; and an occasional awkwardness in the relation of figures within a painting suggests that she has been fitting together drawings done on the spot. Over this lies the integument of broken atmosphere, a congealed version of impressionist flicker...
...first markets to open after Friday's Wall Street scare quickly signals the shocks to come. On a catwalk above the gathering gloom on the trading floor, neatly uniformed "chalkies" sketch stock prices on a green board. All are falling...
...Legend of Sleepy Hollow," in The Sketch Book, Washington Irving. From one Irving to another, and this one is utterly different...