Word: thins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bottle. Clad in soiled shorts and sweat-stained shirts, their bare feet stuck into rubber Japanese zori, they look to be a much scruffier lot than the colonial swells at the Rèsidence. They are much more close-mouthed as well. All attempts to start conversations fail; their thin, long-nosed Gallic faces remain blank...
...worked long and hard on certain aspects of the dissection of a fetal pig"), but overall the joke is strained. In the story, Brackley carves up his girl's face, but she becomes a model. Grotesque? Yes ("Camillia emerged from the bathroom wearing a slip and having a long, thin nose, a deep cleft serving as an eyebrow, one eye resting where her cheek bone formerly was ..."). Funny? Not really...
STILL SEEKING that ineffable moment. I attended the risorgimiento of the Harvard Glee Club in the annual Harvard-Yale concert. The Yale group began with a thin version of Palestrina's Supplicationes for main chorus and responsive small choir (which joined me in the Tibetan heights of the upper balcony) and proceeded to good performances of Holst's delightful Blacksmith Song and Dowland's beautiful Come Again, Sweet Love. Their part closed with a stupendously tedious arrangement by Fenno Heath of Donne's Death Be Not Proud. The Harvard Glee Club performed a less interesting program except for a mildly...
...courtroom is a jail cell; its high flat walls move square around you, and the windows are slatted with iron. But unlike a jail cell, which offers some sanctuary, Adlow's courtroom is thoroughly menacing. You are intimidated by the judge, by the bailiffs with their thick chins and thin lips, by the chuckling old men who come to watch every day, and mostly by the walls that hold you inside--even if you are a free man, as I was Thursday, just a spectator...
Despite the lack of a label, a few adventurous dealers have been setting the new work out in galleries. The year has seen esthetic wonders running from algae to soft obelisks, and constructions incorporating words, photographs, chicken wire, sulphur and thin air. In September Manhattan was treated to the spectacle of James Lee Byars, 36, parading more than 300 votaries along East 66th Street in a communal robe. There were the "earthworks" artists at the Dwan Gallery, who had assembled works replete with peat and petroleum jelly. Meanwhile, their leader, Walter de Maria, 33, was filling three rooms...