Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporter for a newspaper in St. John's. Smitten with socialism, he emigrated to New York City, where he wrote inflammatory stories for the socialist daily Call. Returning to Newfoundland in 1925, Joey became a labor leader and at one point "walked myself down to skin and grief" over 600 miles of railroad track to organize the section...
...kitchenware. The average result is an almost unimaginably stupid and passive materialism-the boredom of Warhol's silk-screened photos without their threat and bite. Thus, confronted for the nth time with another perfect rendering of reflections on the chrome gizzard of a Harley-Davidson or the pastille skin of a Volkswagen, one is apt to recall Truman Capote's sneer (about another medium) that "this isn't writing, it's typing...
...Female Models on Apache Rug is painted with a kind of weighty probity that Courbet would have approved. Nothing is fudged or romanticized; all the attention is focused on an absolute truth of contour, the precise sensation of bunched, knotted or slack muscle, the laconic interplay between the cold skin and the darting, vivid pat terns of the fabric. No artist of Pearlstein's generation has so brave ly confronted the basic issues of realism-how to hold the utmost concreteness of three-dimensional volume within the strongest two-dimensional pattern. The vigorously modeled limbs and trunks...
...Orlando is burly, harsh and volatile. Claudio, idealistic and introverted, is so lost in an irreconcilable vision of the noble savage, the savagery of ignoble civilization, that he periodically retreats further into the jungle to read philosophy in a native hammock. There are the diamond diggers of Aragarcas, their skin made as hard as aluminum by insect bites, who blow each bonanza on preposterous luxuries sold to them at incredible prices by Levantine traders: mink coats for jungle prostitutes, a Cadillac shipped in pieces and reassembled to run back and forth on 100 yards of pavement...
...episode, there was an occasional echo of Archie Bunker's WASPy bigotry. "There ain't nothing uglier than a 90-year-old white woman," Foxx said at one point. When his son said he wanted to make a fortune "just like Aristotle Onassis," Foxx eyed his black skin and observed: "Only one difference between you and Onassis: he started out a Greek...