Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dominant work on display is a tableau featuring eight torsolike constructions made of wire netting swathed in plaster, lined up against a wall painted to look like a strikingly blue Greek sky. The figures are bound to the wall by strands of concentration-camp barbed wire. Another piece consists of a plaster "torso" wearing a bloodstained gray jacket, its arms flung out handless in the posture of a crucifix. Two or three blood-red cloth carnations sprout from the jacket's inside pockets. Still another assemblage presents a shoe embedded in a plaster block. Where the toe dared...
...Wall Street continues to woof happily on its financial looms, if the Peking and Hanoi carpetmakers can be taught to weave a softer warp, and if the Soviets don't throw their bearskin rug across more frontiers, then 1969 will be the busiest, dizziest sewing bee in European vacation history," announces the introduction to Fielding's new Guide, published last month. In that same hortatory fashion, Fielding fusses over his readers' clothes ("A sport jacket on an adult is considered improper at the leading restaurants"), warns them about con men ("No matter how dazzling the offer, puh-LEEZE...
Paris. Lucas Carton, 9, Place de la Madeleine. Solicitous waiters in white tie and tails, warm and intimate décor, big luminous wall mirrors. Specialties include big Belon oysters, cassolette de queues d'écrevisses, pressed duck Rouennaise. Wine list goes on forever. Dinner for two runs about...
fall in sawdust from the aluminum-paint wall...
...abruptly canceled Lockheed's production contract for 375 of the aircraft. Cancellation means a loss of $250 million in orders already in hand, and much more in potential business. Lockheed has already laid off some 700 workers at its Cheyenne plants in Burbank and Van Nuys, Calif. On Wall Street, its stock, which reached 50 earlier this year, fell five points last week, closing...