Word: plates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second mortgage on their home, telling her it was for investment; he lost the money gambling. His wife threatened divorce, and a business acquaintance from whom he had borrowed money that he did not repay clubbed him over the head. That is why Marc has a steel plate in his head. After a failed suicide attempt, he entered a self-help group at Tampa's Glenbeigh Hospital and thinks this time he really has quit gambling. Says Marc: "I'm a miracle. Most people that get in as deep I did either end up dead, in prison or alone...
...program will also be sending three boats to Henley: the varsity heavies will be competing for the Ladies Challenge Plate, the JV heavies will be split into fours and the lightweight eights will be rowing in the Thames...
...memory, as a particular smell might be to others: "I associate the significant moments of my life with the character of light at the time." In fact, glass came before steel in his work of the early '70s, and some of his most beautiful pieces consist only of glass plate laced together with tension cable -- flat, bent or subtly curved, as in Tina Turner, 1970-71, an astonishing tour de force for a sculptor...
...flat vertical plane, behind the glass. Even in a smaller piece like Is, Was (Chancing), 1975-76, there is a fascinating exchange between dark and light, solidity and translucency, underwritten by the economical logic of its making: a single sheet of steel cut and folded, a single plate of glass. And the cables that hold such pieces together are not mere connectors. They are conceived as drawing: exact lines whose tautness is both visual and structural. The ancestor whom they evoke is the pre-1914 Matisse, whose near abstract views of Notre Dame through the studio window had as much...
...machines are parading by -- the Indiana Joneses and Star Treks and Ghostbusters -- wearing roman numerals like kill counts on their armor plate. In a steamroller summer, what's a low-budget comedy to do? Strut as brightly and bawdily as possible. Anyway, that is the tactic of the new film from Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul), which intrudes on the monster-movie scene like a kid blowing a May Day raspberry in Red Square...