Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...china shop in this production, by the way, is a stark and handsome accumulation of steel scaffolding that is only employed in the first act's elevated bedroom scene. The rest of the night it just sits there, and the producers could have turned quite a profit if they had only sold air-rights to the structure for the last two acts...
...life, but they want no further part of it." Said Republican Garner Shriver of Kansas: "The feeling is that we have made a considerable contribution to Cambodia and South Viet Nam and that we've done enough." Added Democrat Joseph Gaydos, whose district encompasses the formerly pro-war steel towns of western Pennsylvania: "In retrospect, most people realize that regardless of how much we might have spent in lives or dollars, we couldn't have changed the outcome...
...past dozen years, American sculpture has become more and more ephemeral and mass-denying. It turned into a matter of open steel constructions, more air than metal; painted surfaces that repress one's sense of material; cool machine-made boxes, metal tiles or bricks laid flat on the floor, anodized glass cubes and characterless Formica skins. To the extent that sculpture can get away from its primordial conditions of weight, thickness, opacity and immobility, it did so in the '60s, and often with an annoyingly academic self-righteousness. Nevertheless, a few of the best sculptors of the time...
Eyeball Stuff. Buchman ties the stone together with massive, clumsy steel connectors, hammered in sheets around the granite (like unwieldy Band-Aids) and then either tied on with steel cables or fixed through the rock with heavy bolts. The engineering, he frankly admits, is "just eyeball stuff" but, though it is crude (probably, if anything, too strong for its tonnage), it works visually. Sometimes the connectors are too busy, with all those nuts and bolts. But in works like Levi, 1975, the jacket of forged and cold-beaten metal encloses its granite haunch with an astonishing delicacy. Because they...
...little old lady who watches the results of her murderous plotting at the construction site down the street while fortifying herself from a box of S & W prunes. It is quite a show: a cable breaks, and a worker falls from a great height, meeting mother earth with a steel beam on his chest; an elevator fire breaks out, and three other workers are fried to death. The job is shut down, but only temporarily, and the old folks at home are laying plans to go after the mogul himself...