Sentences with phrase «giant trowels»

But she is best known for collaborations with Oldenburg, which have placed giant trowels, shuttlecocks, bowling pins and typewriter erasers in parks, civic squares and museum grounds in Europe, Asia and the United States.

- Pastry Case, I (1961 — 2, Museum of Modern Art, New York)- Floor Cone (1962; Museum of Modern Art, New York)- Dual Hamburger (1962, Museum of Modern Art New York)- Bedroom Ensemble (1963, Ottawa Museum of Fine Art)- Lipsticks in Piccadilly Circus, London (1966, Tate, London)- Chapel in the Form of a Swedish Extension Plug (Krannert Museum, Illinois)- Giant Trowel (1976, Kröller - Müller Museum, Holland)- Tube Supported by Its Contents (1979 - 85, Utsumomiya Museum, Japan)- Apple Core (1992, Israel Museum, Jerusalem)- Match Cover (1992, Barcelona)

It also contains some of the year's best sentences: «I heard the sonic rip of a military jet, like a giant trowel being dragged through wet concrete, but saw only blue above, a raw and saturated blue that seemed cut from an inner wedge of sky.»

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They're all present and laying it on with a trowel, including Rufus Sewell (star of «Dark City») as the architect Urshu — who has the snitty defiance of a young Tony Curtis — and Geoffrey Rush as Set and Horus» grandfather, the sun god Ra, who lives on an orbital platform in space, and spends eternity using his sun - bolt lance to zap a giant black leviathan - worm that wants to eat its way through the planet.

When he met Van Bruggen, Oldenburg was working on one of the first big outdoor steel versions of his basic idea, in this case a giant gardening tool called Trowel 1.