Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...portraits of an AIDS survivor, sketched and painted by Marberger's friends since it was confirmed , that he had the disease. They are a tribute to a man who will not quit. When Marberger learned in 1985 that he had Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare form of skin cancer that is sometimes associated with AIDS, his reaction was to fight the assault by the AIDS virus no matter what the cost in money or suffering. The co-owner of a successful Manhattan art gallery, he sold off paintings, two homes and an old mill, worth more than a million dollars...
...conventional planes. Flaps, rudders, elevators and ailerons appear to have been replaced by computer controlled nozzles that guide the aircraft by directing the flow of the engine's exhaust. The engines themselves are nestled above the wings, shielding them from heat-seeking detectors on the ground. The outer skin and inner framework are cast in radar- absorbing carbon-epoxy composites. Other stealthy features might include nonreflective paint and a refrigeration system to cool and dissipate telltale exhaust fumes...
...indeed the strength, of Sultan's paintings lies in their odd, slightly fetishistic technique. He works on square plywood panels, faced with Masonite and then covered with ordinary vinyl tiles. Over these goes a thick coat of black glop -- industrial butyl rubber, used by roofers. Once this tarry skin is dry, Sultan cuts and blowtorches his design into it, filling in white patches with plaster and enriching the whole with color. The seams of the tiles and panels impose a grid on the image, a ghost memory of the minimalist grids that pervaded American art in the '70s, when Sultan...
Arguing that "it's no skin off their backs" how the rates are structured, Wolf said she saw no reason for the utility company not to comply with the Council's request...
...When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness--and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments...