Word: windowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...song, Fight the Power, that bleats from his boom box. By day's end, though, the neighborhood has erupted. Sal and Raheem start fighting about the loud music; the cops arrive and, in the struggle, kill Raheem; Mookie throws a trash can through his employer's window; the place goes up in a puff of black rage...
Handling the flag at that level of power is tricky. Lyndon Johnson quite literally ground his teeth when he looked out his White House window and saw the Viet Nam protesters desecrate flags. But he was a prisoner of jingoism gone sour. Richard Nixon used the Stars and Stripes as a weapon against the marchers, ordering extraordinary displays of flags, pointedly wearing a flag lapel...
...considers himself a part-time commando waging a messianic struggle against his Palestinian neighbors. "When I go out in my car, I'm hunting for Arabs," says the 37-year-old engineer. "I put a bullet in the chamber of my M-16 and keep it pointed out the window with the safety off." He deliberately shifts his Peugeot station wagon into low gear as he enters Palestinian villages to steady his aim in the event of attack. "There is a Jewish intifadeh now, and it can't be stopped," he says. "We're headed...
...plate of glass. And the cables that hold such pieces together are not mere connectors. They are conceived as drawing: exact lines whose tautness is both visual and structural. The ancestor whom they evoke is the pre-1914 Matisse, whose near abstract views of Notre Dame through the studio window had as much effect on Wilmarth's sculpture as they did on Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Parks...
...head. Sometimes it appears on its own -- once, in a piece called Sigh, 1979-80, with the "face" cut away and resting resignedly inside the egg, an image of exquisite poignancy. Usually the head is fixed to a metal plaque with edges and attachments that suggest a window frame, and thus someone (the sculptor himself) looking out into our space. These pieces are darker and less restrained. The smoothness of the glass gives way to textures of rust and even spattered lead -- the silvery color of the lead functioning, like paint, as light. They are Giacomettian in their sense...