Word: stones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confronted the Speaker at a meeting of the high command: "Where is it in stone that we have to balance the budget in seven years?" The Speaker replied, "Let's put it to a vote. Who wants to put it in stone?" Everyone in the room raised his hand--except Kasich. Senate Republicans, though queasy at the idea, eventually accepted the goal as well, and the script for the rest of 1995 was written...
...temper. He was a broad, massive man with a very hard face, and when he was in a bad mood he would come down the hall and Congressmen would be afraid to even talk to him because they were afraid of saying the wrong thing. He was like a stone coming through a wave. People would part before...
Organized by three curators--Friedrich Teja Bach, Margit Rowell and Ann Temkin--the exhibition is beautifully installed, with every piece given its due of light, air and space. It contains more than 100 sculptures in wood, stone and marble, together with the remarkable bases Brancusi made for them and backed up with a host of photographs that document the life in his Paris studio. (Since Brancusi took his own photos, they contain important clues about how he meant the pieces to be grouped, viewed and interpreted.) Already seen in Paris, the show won't go anywhere after Philadelphia; this...
...base. And he especially loved form that spoke of life or awareness at their origins: primal, self-enclosed, a marble egg floating in its own space like a cell, an egglike head lying on its side, filled with what the poet Octavio Paz called "the dreams of undreaming stone...
...pure and yet somehow indeterminate; it has no trace of fins, gills or other fishy attributes. It is more like the shadow of a fish in perfectly clear water, a gray flicker cast on the riverbed below, whose pebbles are suggested by the white streaks and mottling within the stone itself. Thus one has the strange impression of both looking at an opaque, polished stone form and gazing into transparency. It isn't a trick; the effect rises, swims into view, from the physical nature of the marble, and yet it is extraordinarily poetic, even dramatic...