Word: zipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would take a motif -- a friend smoking and talking, people around a table, a swimmer in the blue light-dappled water of his Los Angeles pool, an allee of chestnut trees or a green spindly iron chair with pigeons in ) the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris -- and shoot away: click-zip, left-right, up- down, frame after frame, more like a hen pecking than a formal photographer composing, an accumulation of nervous little details, splinters and shards. He would deal out the images, dozens or hundreds of them, on the studio floor and begin assembling. "There are a hundred separate looks...
...been savaged for glitzy overkill and for commercializing the statue by selling TV rights to ABC for $10 million. The other networks, furious, forced ABC to share the news events. His equanimity strained, Wolper bridles at talk that he is making money from Liberty Weekend: "I get zero, zip. They offered a fifty-fifty deal. I turned it down. I wanted to be a volunteer, because I'm asking so many other people to be a volunteer." (He receives $400 a day for expenses, far below his normal income.) If the July 6 closing ceremonies are an extravaganza, Wolper says...
...sale in East Village boutiques from Black Market and Batislavia to Tribe and 109 St. Mark's, are such items as an Eva Goodman nylon raincoat, colored like a beachball, done up with sailing-line pullies and decorated with squirmy rubber fishing lures; a black rubber dress with a zip from back to hem by Mariann Marlowe; and an all-vinyl snakeskin suit by Animal-X. Some of the clothes go for immediate impact over staying power. But there are a fair number of designers, like Morton and Goodman, who are imaginative enough to be in no immediate danger...
...build a computerized name list for future direct-mail solicitation. One prominent evangelist, Oregon-based Hispanic Luis Palau, complains with some justification, "When you try to talk to somebody about Jesus Christ in America, they immediately think all you want is to get their name, address and ZIP code...
...remembered for a decade's worth of paintings: the stark abstractions, composed of thick bars, props and vectors of black on a white ground, that he made in New York after 1950. Their iconic monochrome stamped itself on American cultural memory as vividly as Pollock's drip, Newman's zip, Rothko's blur or the shark smile of De Kooning's women...