Word: woven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James deFrantz, president of the school's Afro-American Association, said yesterday, "Racism is woven into the fabric of the Dartmouth community. It is a living hell for black students and minority students. A strong message is conveyed to all black students: you are not wanted here," he added...
...best large sculpture in the show is a delicate construction of wooden slats, curled and woven through one another and supported on pebbles, by Michael Singer. Its ancestor is Giacometti's famous surrealist construction of the 1930s, The Palace at 4 a.m.−there is a similar feeling of spindliness, fragility and, isolated in its museum cell, of mystery. Though it suggests other cultures (bamboo lattices, fish traps, grave-marker posts), it does not do so in a sloppy, metaphorical way. At 33, Singer is clearly an artist worth watching...
...these characters are woven into a plot that courts coincidence and irony with Dickensian abandon...
...whispering very emotionally as he explained all this to his friend. Like a man who had found Truth, he was compelled to spread the word. And like a good evangelist he had skillfully woven myth and fact, vision and reality, into a web so entangled that you could never be really sure of anything...
Interesting. A gypsy society continuing to function between (and under) the tight-woven lines of our urban, industrial culture, roaming around, making a living out of fortunetelling and other ancient scams, avoiding even such basic paper work as birth certificates. To the degree that King of the Gypsies shows us something of how these people survive, it is an interesting and rather original movie...