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...quarter of the entire work force-and in stricken cities like Chicago the figure went as high as one-half. FORTUNE magazine estimated that 27.5 million Americans had no regular income at all. More than a million of the jobless roamed the country as hobos. Ugly clusters of tin-can shanties known as "Hoovervilles" sprouted in the midst of New York City's Central Park. Penniless men tried to sell apples on street corners. Many talked of revolution...
...same pitch of high manneristic skill can be seen, though used to wholly variant ends, in the work of Richard Shaw, 40; drawing from the American trompe 1'oeil tradition begun in the 19th century by Peto and Harnett, Shaw casts objects-playing cards, books, tin cans, ax handles-in porcelain and then glazes them into a more than photographic accuracy of surface. Sometimes, though not often enough, a flash of real poetry appears in the midst of Shaw's virtuoso pedantry. Moonlight Goose, 1978, with its loving simulations of flaking paint and marbled paper, attains a wistful...
...fresh from an outing in Scotland, grappled with a variety of hassles: driving wind, snowy tarmac, bulky luggage. And lots of dogs. There was Prince Charles' retriever Harvey, who couldn't wait to get off the plane. He bounded down the gangway, dragging Charles behind like a tin can. Then there was Anne's retriever. He took one look at the steep gangway and cowered in the plane's doorway. While a shirt-sleeved steward grabbed the dog, Princess Anne, with a stiff upper lip and fairly rigid upper arm, pulled...
...Asaro's choice of a place to study: a long, fluorescent-lit room in the basement of Cabot Library. She has staked out a corner of the room for herself, and covered it with her belongings: notes for a Biochem 10 paper, a pile of textbooks, and a little tin ashtray with six cigarette butts. "Of all the places where you can study and get comfortable," she says, "This is just about the only one where you can smoke...
...sense of display is abolished. The objects are inorganic and dateless: milky long-necked bottles and squat flasks, a biscuit tin, a fluted bowl, some long-beaked metal pitchers. They carry no marks, patterns or brand names. They look fragile and contingent, but they endure for decades, through picture after picture. (To make sure that nothing disturbed the precise relationships he put them in, Morandi drew chalk circles around the bases of his "models" on the surface of the table.) Sometimes the things have the look of architecture; the slender bottle necks, leaning together, vaguely recall the towers of Bologna...