Word: walls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brenda Lee Riley, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, hitchhiked with her husband, who had bouts of serious depression, from Ohio to California, where he beat her and sometimes pretended to hang himself. One day he ripped out the gas wall heater and flicked his lighter. Brenda survived by diving out a second-floor window. "Fire is a weird color when you're inside it," she recalls. Years later, though burn scars cover her body, medication has controlled her mental illness and she has become a part-time "life coach" at the Village. She rents her own apartment and hopes...
...moment of the Warhol Effect was back, inspirited by the cash of the swelling Wall Street plutocracy that seemed to live inside the Pop artist's reverie of an endless spree of sensations and spectacles acquired, used up and instantly replaced. This is not to say that work harkening to the spiritual, to quieter introspection, wasn't being done. Such abstract artists as Bill Jensen, Sean Scully and Christopher Wilmarth were making some of their best work, but their belief in the poetic possibilities of doubt were no longer the currency...
Jeff Koons' Rabbit (1986), a blow-up bunny cast in mirror-bright steel, is plunked down center stage, surrounded by works that date from the Wall Street boom of the '80s. Its cartoonish exterior basks in the shiny glare of its obviousness: here is our post-Pop world--little else than the distorted reflection of commerce, all chrome and gaudy light. And as you approach it, you too are caught in its surface: carnival-like and bloated, staring...
...needed more time to follow instructions. Or perhaps new vessels had formed in the first month but were too minuscule to be detected by the angiogram. In midsummer, after six months, I returned to New York Presbyterian for more tests. They showed that formerly "hibernating" tissue on the front wall of the heart (not dead, but inactive) had reawakened. The ejection fraction (percentage of blood ejected with each heartbeat) had risen from 29 to 40 (normal is anywhere from 40 to 60). The new vessels had evidently materialized...
...will pay such prices? Some Wall Street millionaires, among others. But the bidders will also include a handful of billionaires from Silicon Valley, where wine collecting has become a passion. One night in New York City recently, two NASDAQ princes sitting at adjacent dinner tables ran up four-figure wine tabs. Both said they were just warming...