Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside, the Paradise Cafe is cramped and dim, furnished with an erratic array of small wooden and linoleum-topped tables. There's a juke box pressed against the front wall that a cluster of waifs and their serene elders stray in to dance around. The bar is on the periphery of Central Square, fairly close to MIT, and it's frequented by locals, mostly, with a sprinkling of students. From the stools under the television a string of posters of the likes of Tiny Tim, W.C. Fields and Jack Palladine is visible, although it is hidden from the opposite side...
...Moore's. The Manhattan docks have furnished both the material and the imagery for his work: the gray, salt-pickled balks of timber; their ponderous iron bolts, cleats and straps; the explicit logic of big practical structure. Pieces like Hankchampion (1960) are inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung with chain, are a homage to the plain speech of early industrial architecture. There is also a strong connection to abstract-expressionist painting. As James Monte points out in his catalogue essay, these weathered timbers were "a near-perfect analogue of the wide brush stroke...
...strikingly attractive woman by the end of the film; a submissive wife when she steps off the boat, she eventually emerges as an independent and assertive figure. The rest of the film's performances are generally solid, with only a few flaws such as Steven Keats's occasionally wooden portrayal of Jake. Keats's performance amounts to little more than bluster at times. His major problem is his inability to decide exactly how much he would like to Americanize Jake...
...want any material treasures to remind her of her childhood in Sweden, so the garret contains nothing Swedish except her own language hidden in the bookshelf. Others bring in any Swedish souvenirs the house may harbor. Her parents often bring her son gifts from their travels; orange blue painted wooden horses from Sweden line the mantel in his room. "Like the ones I had when I was little," she says. In the library downstairs there is a white marble bust of Sissela, sculpted when she was 11. Her parents wanted to give work to one of the refugees in Sweden...
...when the children leave for school she starts up the winding wooden stairway toward her garret and no one follows...