Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget Filene's Basement, forget Loehmann's. The ultimate in off-price shopping last week was to be found in Peachland, N.C. There, under the open sky, lay some 120 tons of used clothing at a price buyers could not refuse: free...
...discount from regular prices. The crisis has brought relatively little new hardship for the poor, so far. Hereberto Lombaro, 33, says he makes about $20 a day selling fruit-flavored ices from a pushcart. "I don't care what the Americans do," he says, grinning up at the cloudless sky. "As long as it stays hot, I'll have customers...
...journey from being a Newark secretary to one of the capital's pre-eminent political poets, she has acquired a dashing husband with an eye patch, Richard Rahn, an economist with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a ten-month-old son with eyes as blue as the evening sky. And something else -- a facsimile machine that rests on her kitchen cabinet just above little Will's playpen. He is fascinated with its rustling paper, the paper of poetry. Noonan pecks the words out in the next room and feeds them into this electronic umbilical, and they emerge in Bush...
This scheme gets in the way when, instead of simple, flat images, he tackles scenes with a deeper space. In a painting like Battery May 5, 1986 -- black, smudgy figures on a promenade in lower Manhattan, a plunging perspective of lamps on the seawall, a livid yellow sky -- the recession is brusquely contradicted by the surface grid of vinyl tiles; the image struggles to break back from the picture plane but cannot. It is a self-canceling effect but not an interestingly perverse...
...other paintings of fires, abandoned industrial plants and refineries belching out their pollutants under a Stygian sky, the emotive content of the image (industry as Pandemonium) is at odds with the stolid execution. Few techniques could be less suited to depicting what is fugitive and mobile, like fire and smoke, than cutting silhouettes from roofing tar. Sultan leans toward the mummified sublime. His stage effects of glare and silhouette descend, remotely, from Turner. But he is so used to thinking in terms of figure and ground that he handles the transitions between them -- the midtones, the modulations of light -- clumsily...