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Samuel Isaac Weissman

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Samuel Isaac Weissman, a professor and chemist who helped develop the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, has died. He was 94.

Weissman died Tuesday [June 12]….

From Log24
 on Tuesday,
June 12:

Sky Fish

Illustration from
LOGOS
(May 17, 2007)

From today's
New York Times:

Photo by Richard Termine

Scene from "Behind the Lid"

(See the Log24 entries from
June 12, the date of
Weissman's death.)

From Ben Brantley's
review of "Behind the Lid,"
a quote from the author:

"Her life, her voice says,
was devoted to discovering
'the inside on the outside,
  the outside on the inside.'"

Related material:

Julie Taymor—

"They did it from
the inside to the outside.
And from the outside to the in.
And that profoundly
moved me then. It was…
it was the most important thing
that I ever experienced."

Wallace Stevens—

Sky Fish

Illustration from
LOGOS
(May 17, 2007)

From an obituary in today's New York Times:

"Lee Nagrin, a noted Off Broadway performance artist… died Thursday in Manhattan. She was 78….

She formed her own company, the Sky Fish Ensemble, in 1979 and presented performance-art pieces that tended to unspool like fairy tales, filled with mysterious, archetypal imagery. Her own presence was mysterious, too, both on and off the stage, often conjuring up the sense of a keen-eyed, all-seeing, benign witch.

She created some of those images midperformance, as when she traced a landscape along brown paper that ringed the stage space of Silver Whale Gallery, where much of her work was performed.

For her last piece, 'Behind the Lid,' she collaborated with the puppeteer Basil Twist on a story in which a woman looks back on her life through a dream. Performances are this month at the Silver Whale."

LEE NAGRIN AND BASIL TWIST’S
BEHIND THE LID
Tuesday – Sunday @ 8PM
June 3rd – June 28th
Silver Whale Gallery

"Silver Whale Gallery (21 Bleecker Street) proudly announces the world premiere of BEHIND THE LID, a new play by playwright/performer Lee Nagrin and puppeteer/performer Basil Twist that chronicles a woman looking back on her life through a dream; her memories expand, open and reveal while an intimate audience of 18 will travel with her through this hand made world. Audience members are guided by a young familiar through this older woman's life and dreams. They experience layer upon layer of the life of an American artist – Lee Nagrin. Basil Twist creates the puppetry and performs.

Tickets for BEHIND THE LID are $40. To purchase tickets, please call Smarttix.com at 212-868-4444 or for more information visit www.leenagrin.com on the Internet."

From Log24
on June 7, the date
of Nagrin's death:

"… Packaging is unavoidable.
Facts rarely, if ever, 
  speak for themselves."

— Matthew C. Nisbet,  
Assistant Professor
  of "Communication,"
June 6, 2007

From the
New York Lottery
on June 7, the date
of Nagrin's death:

Mid-day: 603
Evening: 805

Another opening of
another show.