Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lying half asleep--mildly diverting but with precious few surprises. Anyone who's seen a lot of television can check out a show for ten minutes and tell you what's going to happen for the rest of the action. They're practiced experts at predicting outcomes because the stuff on the tube has strict boundaries; it flows judiciously in the Nielsen main stream. What sustains a movie, then--because it can aim for a more limited audience--is that sense of whoosh-we're-taking-off-and-this-could-go-anywhere, a sense of being carried away...
...experience and soon reappears grown up as Roger Daltrey, blank-eyed and looking like the aftermath of a heavy night of smashing guitars in the days when The Who used to wear their coke spoons publicly around their necks, and rumors flew that thousands of dollars worth of the stuff was often consumed in one night...
Buchman, a mild, prognathous giant with a Jeremiah Johnson beard, has been working at sculpture for six years. He studied painting and sculpture at the Skowhegan School in 1969, and for a time made constructions of logs held together with cut-up truck inner tubes. Buchman first noticed the stuff for his monoliths as he was driving north to Vermont one day in 1972, after one of his infrequent trips to New York: the highway went through a cutting, and ragged chunks of stone were littered all along the roadside. Realizing that "granite has to be the cheapest thing...
...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...
...away and live in a tent with Maometto, which is pretty good stuff for opera. Then Neocle shows up in chains - sound familiar? - and says, 'Listen, honey, you gotta go back to your father and your country; they're doing terrible things to all the virgins...