Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miracle of late Braque lies in this conjuncture of the explicit and the poetic. The green surface of The Billiard Table, 1945, folding in the middle, seems to be foundering in the aqueous gray and olive planes of the room like a sinking ship. Perhaps there is a ghost of a clue in the barely visible lettering on the wall, part of a cafe sign reminding patrons of the law against public drunkenness. But between the elements of the painting there is a continuous jostling, circling and reflection, a sense of the vitality of form in every particular, that puts...
...attentively viewing The Color Of Money (Beacon Hill). Dewitt had seen this movie before and at second look decided he didn't like it. The Color Of Money updates the story of pool-hustler Fast Eddie Felsen (Paul Newman). After years of retirement, Felsen decides to re-enter the billiard biz by tutoring a young hustler named Vince (Tom Cruise), teaching him to love currency more than the game itself...
...many once paternalistic companies, the cost cutting has produced stunning changes in the corporate culture. Eastman Kodak, which has always prided itself on being a home away from home for its workers, has closed its employee bowling alley and billiard rooms, and no longer provides dinners with dance bands. Reluctantly abandoning its virtual guarantee of job security, the company trimmed away nearly 13,000 of its 129,000 employees last year as part of a program to save $500 million annually. Says Kodak Chairman Colby Chandler: "The principal object is to make the company more agile, more competitive and more...
Hence its collection is uneven: strong in fauvism and the pre-cubist school of Paris but weak in surrealism, with some early Picassos, like the 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein, and the late Braques, like The Billiard Table, 1944-52, of ravishing quality; obstructed by (mostly) dull American figurative works by John Steuart Curry, Jack Levine and the like, bought with Hearn's money in the '20s and '30s, that ought to be a footnote to the American Wing; dense with fair-to-splendid examples of early American modernists (Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove and others) and later...
...custom-forged brass trim, and dappled with expansive Oriental rugs and sprays of orchids, the store evokes the imagined atmosphere of a London men's club or a distinguished Edwardian hotel. The display space is cluttered with props, including English saddles, bulbous trophies, top hats and a rack of billiard cues. "Lauren is the only designer with the product range to have such a store," says Nina Hyde, fashion editor of the Washington Post. Some shoppers, though, view the store's atmosphere as contrived...