Word: shipwreck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Genesis. Without any written records of their faith, which were presumably lost in the shipwreck, Saturday's Oilmen handed down what they could remember of their rituals and practices from generation to generation, losing more and more as the centuries rolled on. Then, tradition relates that some time in the 12th century a Jew named David Rahabi, believed to be from Egypt, discovered them. Noting that they abstained from work on the Sabbath, circumcised their male children when they were eight days old, stayed indoors on Yom Kippur, and refused to eat fish without fins and scales, he decided...
...Shipwreck. Until Joe Levine came along, Hercules was just another Italian film that several U.S. distributors had seen and sneered at. And Steve Reeves was just another refugee from California's Muscle Beach set who had tried Broadway and TV and even studied a little chiropractic before an Italian producer picked him up for Hercules. On a tip, Levine flew to Rome and looked at the picture. Says he: "It had action and sex, a near shipwreck, gorgeous women on an island and a guy tearing a goddam building apart. And where did you ever see a guy with...
...have consented to don the purple in the midst of national surrender . . . But alas! under the outer shell, the years had gnawed his character. Age was delivering him over to the maneuvers of people who were clever at covering themselves with his majestic lassitude. Old age is a shipwreck...
...misty, mystic haze of blue light stands a forest of eerie, black wooden shapes. They are made of orange crates, piano ornaments, driftwood, barrel tops and shipwreck planks, glued, twisted, nailed or pushed together. This is The Moon Garden + One, one of the most unusual exhibitions of sculpture in many a moon, on view this week at Manhattan's Grand Central Moderns Gallery...
...suppose that I would have been a good transcendentalist 100 years ago." He often paints water, finding in its unresting ebb and flow an almost obsessive symbol for the tides of time. On occasion, as in his stormy Clock (see cut) time, tide and the implied threat of shipwreck build together into a powerful unity. At other times he uses a huge winter-stripped, decaying tree to suggest the fact that even the giants of the forest must eventually fall, or paints a rattlesnake coiled in ambush on a mountain slope to "show the precariousness of man's existence...