Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director Arthur Hochstein, who designed the layouts for the entire package, faced a difficult problem: how to create a strikingly original cover image. Their solution was to approach Christo, the famed Bulgarian-born environmental sculptor. In earlier works Christo had draped in plastic large sections of the earth -- a stretch of Australian coast, a canyon in Colorado -- but never the whole planet. This time Christo bundled a 16-in. globe in polyethylene and rag rope and drove more than 350 miles up and down New York's Long Island in search of the perfect combination of light...
...away there lies a lake where the great birds go in winter. Then, at the first hint of spring, they fly off in giant Vs that stretch across the Swan Sky (Philomel; $13.95). One season a female becomes too weak to travel. Her family is torn between staying with her and obeying the magnetic force that pulls them northward. With striking woodcuts in black, white and pervasive blue, Tejima, a Japanese artist, explains the cycle of the seasons and the migration of birds, which, like humans, carry on an unspoken dialogue with the changing face of nature...
...Naked Gun is a picture in thrall to its own silliness. Three of the film's perpetrators, the ZAZ team, spoofed '70s disaster epics in Airplane! and spy movies in Top Secret! Now they have stolen from themselves, extending their 1982 TV series Police Squad! to feature length. The stretch marks show, in a plethora of chase scenes and bathroom humor that makes The Naked Gun seem like Police Academy with a brain. Well, maybe three brains. Like the ZAZ lads' other films, this is a movie made for a VCR Saturday night. They supply the jokes; you bring...
...does. It's hard to answer. Actually, it's kind of Monopoly money. But we're putting in $20 million, which we had to borrow on a ^ recourse loan. So if I fail, I'm on the hook. But making $100 million was not my motive by any stretch of the imagination...
...later modern heirs -- contains some of the most poignant, influential and exquisitely developed paintings in the history of art. Few of them, in these days of terminally fragile objects and impossible insurance costs, could or should be allowed to travel. An exhibition that dealt with this theme at full stretch would have to include Giorgione's Tempest and his (or Titian's) Concert Champetre, Botticelli's Primavera, Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods, plus any amount of Rubenses, Poussins, Annibale Carraccis, Claudes, Watteaus, Turners and Matisses, not to mention Manet's Dejeuner...