Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Copper sun or scarlet...
...agrees to a meeting with her phone partner "next Tuesday," under guise of a visit to her acupuncturist. True? Who cares, when 40,000 Britons paid $22 each on the first day to call a special phone line and listen to the tape? Three days after this bombshell, the Sun, Britain's raciest tabloid, announced it possessed another juicy phone transcript, this one of a conversation between Fergie and Prince Andrew in January 1990. During this call, the paper claimed, the duchess said she wanted to escape the marriage and go off to Argentina, where her mother lives after bolting...
...fashioned into furniture. Oil drums are made into roofing sheets, frying pans, barbecues, stoves, knives and lamps. Cars that cannot be repaired are salvaged piecemeal and turned into donkey carts. Much of this unofficial labor is carried out in the open air and is called jua kali -- "hot sun." As multinational companies are driven away by government policies and demands for kickbacks, as state enterprises fail and lay off workers, the jua kali economy is booming...
...Greenfield High -- one small seedbed of America -- was still feeling good about itself this summer. And as a huge prairie sun went down, the grads jammed into the gym for the last dance. When the music ended after midnight, the floor was still crowded, the alums savoring every heartbeat...
...yellow stripes, the eccentric placement and displacement of shape, the not quite naive use of repetition and rhyme, even the comic-strip blue cabin and the Looney Tunes mule. And The Breakdown (circa 1940-41), showing a sharecropper's feet protruding from beneath his stalled jalopy while a huge sun sinks and his wife scrapes together a meal by the side of the road, has some of the deep, wry, emblematic pathos of Philip Guston's late work...