Word: verrazano
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...away from one another while they remain close. From a shop window piled high with big box radios, Carly Simon's voice sweeps into Fifth Avenue singing That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be. At the south end of the avenue, beyond Sunset Park, the Verrazano Bridge loops like a necklace in a black velvet case...
There's the blue line that is painted from the start to the finish, and of course the line of 19,000 runners that stretches over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge...
...sidewalk, propped against an available building. They do their own selling; Forss merely watches while passers-by stop to look. They see remarkable things: a velvety image of a contemplative black child, a serene study of a well-fed cat and an undernourished house plant. The much photographed Verrazano Bridge can be found in Forss's display, but this time with a small starburst of sunlight piercing one of its uprights. And, yes, there is a winter scene in Central Park, rendered as a child with a very experienced eye might see it: the snow white, the background buildings...