Word: sunkenness
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...Here . . ." From death, that sunken rock of an abstraction, Wights painted ideas ripple out to include what he calls "the transitoriness lite. Now we're here, now we're not." Says he: "I suppose that I would have been a good transcendentalist 100 years ago." He often paints water, finding in its unresting ebb and flow an almost obsessive symbol for the tides of time. On occasion, as in his stormy Clock (see cut) time, tide and the implied threat of shipwreck build together into a powerful unity. At other times he uses a huge winter-stripped, decaying...
Pinning blame for the collision squarely on sunken Andrea Doria, Stockholm charged that the Manhattan-bound Italian liner was not properly manned or equipped, failed to keep a proper lookout, was proceeding at excessive speed, had faulty radar protection, failed to sound required signals, and "suddenly and unexpectedly and without warning veered across the path of Stockholm and into collision with Stockholm...
Last week, with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, Janos Starker played a piece that might reduce many a strong man to sentimentality-Schumann's Cello Concerto. Under the pale lights, Starker's sunken cheeks looked drained of blood as he bent to the romantic work, but he never bowed to its maudlin potentialities. His tone was neither too plump nor too lean, but pure, tense and silken. He sculpted the long, melodic lines precisely, restraining himself where a lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called...
...success who has $14,000 a year and the boss's ear to show for his efforts. His boss is a sexurbanite who keeps adding fresh blonde codicils to his own tattered, 30-year-old marriage contract. It is at the bottom of the boss's sunken garden that Tom meets Louise, an exotic fragment of brunette poetry. Over cocktails, it turns out that her beefy husband is Tom's dentist. Tom and Louise lark off for a weekend together and get found out. In one of the more bloodcurdling scenes in recent fiction, the cuckolded dentist...
...SUNKEN GARDEN, by Douglass Wallop (254 pp.; Norton; $3.50), spins this sudsy question in the novelistic washer: Will the seven-year itch spoil the successful marriage of Tom Forester, boy adman? Author Wallop is noted for his 1954 crystal-gazing novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (later the hit musical Damn Yankees), in which he showed how the Devil, with an assist from a Washington Senator outfielder, could raise hob in a baseball stadium; now he shows how the devil in the flesh complicates family life in the Madison Avenue...