Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...petunias and daisies show through the twilight. Fireflies and children burst from leafy caverns. A look into the barn shows that it stables a red Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Far off, thunderheads pile up over the Missouri River, and then ringers of coolness touch the broad leaves of the linden tree overhead...
...road southeast of Paris, a car lurched out of control and crashed into a tree. The driver and two of his passengers were injured; the fourth was killed instantly. When news of the tragedy emerged, the only appropriate word was one that the dead man had made famous: absurd...
...Purchase, N.Y., most of the pieces are figures or heads. But they are complex, swathed in images of metamorphosis. One of Frank's recurrent themes from classical mythology is that of Daphne, the daughter of a river god; pursued by an amorous Apollo, she turned into a laurel tree to protect herself. The elements of that myth ? eroticism, physical change and an invocation of the antique past ? pervade Mary Frank's work as a whole. Bodies be come landscape, human anatomy wavers into that of animal or plant, and the structure of flesh undergoes a sort of fossilization...
...century suffragist who, by defending women's pantaloons, gave bloomers their name. Costanza, whose office has just been moved to the White House basement, flashed a hand-lettered sign: WANTED: OFFICE SPACE. During rehearsal she said to the youngster playing Amy Carter, "I've just decided your tree house will make a marvelous office for me. I can lower a tin cup and get messages...
...dusk deepened, the woman did not turn on the light but sat looking at the television screen. Their set had a special channel for watching the colony playground. The silent black-and-white image revealed her son balancing himself on a tree trunk, while his fat friend kept falling off; except for the two of them, the playground was forsaken. The woman's eyes glistened with tears...