Word: neon
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...rest of the photography ranged from middling to poor and was only occasionally interrupted by another medium. Most notable among the other pieces exhibited were the paintings by David Gammons. The series of three oil paintings titled "Haywire" was bold in its colors and forms. The striking neon backgrounds, particularly in the second and third pieces, were a welcome contrast to the ubiquitous black and white. Gammons' backgrounds also enlivened the paintings themselves by creating dramatic tension between their alarming hues and the solid lines of the free floating forms. "Haywire" was commendable and the most inspired work Gammons...
...onlookers, Casnoff suffered only superficial injuries and took just one day off before resuming previews for this week's opening. Some of the metaphysically inclined credited his survival to the producers' having brought in five Shinto priests from Japan, before performances started, to purify the Marquis Theater amid the neon honky-tonk of Times Square. Skeptics complained that the blessing should have averted the freak accident altogether...
...example, I would completely renovate Memorial Hall. On the exterior, I envision neon signs everywhere. Nothing jazzes up a place like neon. On the interior, I see plush red carpeting, subdued overhead lighting, and lots and lots of mirrors. None of that cheap velour stuff like you might see elsewhere...
...some freshening up for contemporary consumption. A.E. Hotchner, whose previous forays into biography have included volumes about Ernest Hemingway, Doris Day and Sophia Loren, is clearly no rock fan. He dismisses Jagger as "a ruler with no queen, no jester, no kingdom, just an egocentric bitch king with a neon scepter sitting on a hollow throne." But Hotchner does display a certain amount of commercial calculation, no doubt having sized up the sales receipts of rock butcher Albert Goldman's biographies of Elvis and John Lennon, and he comes up with his own cash-register kicker: Brian Jones was murdered...
...pour a drink? No one I know proudly displays cigarette butts in their room, but an empty Stoli bottle on the mantle is a symbol of adulthood. Few Marlboro posters grace the walls of Harvard dormitories, but who knows how many Harvard suites have a Budweiser poster or a neon beer sign...