Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made his most haunting "doodle": three powerful vertical bars with three hard-pressed black ovoid forms caught between each. They could have been prisoners trapped behind bars or, as Modern Museum Curator Frank O'Hara suggests, "bulls' tails and testicles hung side by side on the wall of the arena after the fight." Motherwell titled it Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and has obsessively used the visual metaphor 102 times in the intervening 17 years, even adapting it to the Irish Rebellion, until it has become his trademark. For the Modern's show, five Elegies, ranging...
...Bennett Street transit yards hide their dirty insides from the outer world. A seven-foot wall, smeared with the faded paint of overzealous Dartmouth fans, watches over Boylston Street. A high steel fence stands sentinel on Memorial Drive as the ugly eyes of old subways stare out at passing cars...
When Britko drinks, Kadar places a rum glass before the lens; when Britko wakes up, the camera moves slowly along the ceiling and wall and finally up his legs, coming into focus with exquisite timing. Soon the audience becomes vicarious inhabitants of Britko's village. We walk down the main street behind Briko as he tips his hat to friends; we stop to hear an old fiddler play a bitter-sweet tune; we cringe when a Nazi dragoon marches...
Even though Sevetz has a reputation as a passer, the decimated cornerbacks should hold up. Norton and Bill Cobb, on the other side, both performed wall against Holy Cross, and Yovicsin has moved sophomore Ric Zimmerman from quarterback to back them up. Injured Buzz Baker, the most experienced of the Crimson cornerbacks, may be ready for action this week...
...bright. Abroad the war was going better in Viet Nam and the Red Chinese had backed down from their threat to charge into India. At home, economists at a meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board almost unanimously predicted that business would rise through 1966. Barring an unexpected reverse, Wall Street's bull seemed to face few hurdles...