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Cremaster 2 is a sprawling, hallucinatory quiltwork of gorgeously shot scenes, ominous organ music and barely a page of dialogue, all slowly unfolding a circuitous plot involving Gilmore (played with truculent wordlessness by Barney), copulating bees, members of the Gilmore clan, Houdini (played briefly and pugnaciously by Norman Mailer, author of the Gilmore saga The Executioner's Song), a Brahma bull, the Mormon Tabernacle and landscapes ranging from Utah's blindingly bright salt flats to the glacial ice fields of Jasper, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hallucinatory Acts | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

MARY BAUERMEISTER - Bonino, 7 West 57th. In the forefront of the frantic search for new materials, a young German artist creates sensuous surfaces with polished pebbles, drinking straws, hollow shells, wood. She proves with "linen sculptures" that look like modern abstractions of Grandma's old quiltwork that she can sew - and prettily, too. Through April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Apr. 10, 1964 | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...tower cleared 72 Bravo for takeoff, and Goldwater lifted the Beech up, over the emerald quiltwork of irrigation land, over the purple Rincon peaks, over the state whose every wrinkle he knows and loves, heading southeast for the first stop of the day in his campaign to defend his U.S. Senate seat against Democratic Governor Ernest McFarland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personality Contest | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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