Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, not everyone has caught the contagion, and Kanfer declares firmly that "relatives are to be avoided." News Desk Editor Margaret Boeth's father, a Mississippi judge, warned her against putting too much stock in the family tree. "It takes three generations to make a lady, and then she'll spit," he used to say. In addition to many distinguished ancestors, Boeth can also claim a petticoat thief in New Amsterdam (fined 20 guilders for the deed). And Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate enjoys recalling, among his Puritan precursors, one William ("Whiskey") Cate, who earned his moniker...
...shortcomings of the acting, suggestiveness proliferates in the set and lighting. Plastic ferns and gaudy gold grapes appear hideous at first until they assume nightmarish vibrancy under the lights. Then again, it is appropriate to use flagrantly artificial plants for the garden of a supreme artificer. In addition, the tree which Beatriz calls her brother is made to resemble a stick figure of a man with his head at a tilt. Later, behind Beatriz drinking from the vial, the tree looms like a crucifix. The lighting (designed by James Meyer) creates an illusion of transparency as the Messenger blends...
Beverly Pepper, who launched her sculpting career by carving fallen tree trunks, told an audience at Hilles yesterday that she tries to cooperate with time, the fourth dimension, in molding the monumental steel sculptures for which she has become famous...
When a newspaper wins the top Pulitzer Prize for journalistic excellence, one might expect it to flourish like the biblical green bay tree-or at least the Washington Post after Watergate...
Color breaks over one like a wave in Jenshel and Epstein's work. Jenshel seeks out the shocking pink in everything--not only in a heart-shaped chair or curtains, but even in a slate roof, or a pine tree's needles. Epstein has two palettes, one to render brilliant events like a fire, one of muted greys and browns to capture the mysterious moods of, say, a harbor. Both photographers' use of color is exhilarating, sensuous. Awash in it, one slips the moorings of sane and pedestrian vision...