In its combination of religion and homespun technique, Mr. Lanigan-Schmidt's work resembles that of an outsider artist like James Hampton, a janitor who over a 14-year period (1950-1964) secreatedcreated in a rented garage an amazing multipart tableau of ceremonial furnishings and ritualistic devices covered in silver and gold foil for his own visionary church.
She recalls that when her parents went to clean out his Harvard office, a janitor came over to them and said that most of the people at Harvard treated him as if he were invisible, but that Robert always talked with him.
"FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMY," Preston Foerder's puppet show of Grimm's Fairy Tales, in which the puppeteer doesn't show up and the janitor has to take over, using sponges and mops to substitute as characters and scenery.
It is the classic underdog sports tale: it depicts an over-enthusiastic janitor's attempt to transform misfit students into Nebraska State tennis champions".
'The janitor whacked me over the head with a broom and told me to fuck off.' Reluctantly, Reeves obliged and, energised, formed his own band, the Fashionable Five, Gang of Four-like art school punks.
You are not going to see him out on the picket line with S.E.I.U. over some janitor's strike".
Dressed in baggy cotton pants and a khaki work shirt, with Clark Kent horn rims below a scruffy comb-over, he looked like a museum janitor on coffee break, quietly considering the mad messes that artists get up to.
When the show was over, I approached one of the janitors.
A 25-year-old janitor named Devaraja R. is hunched over it as he plays a vocabulary game called Talk Now English.
Those words are intoned in voice-over by Chris Pratt Josephh Gordon-Levitt), a brain-damaged bank janitor who narrates the screenwriter Scott Frank's directorial debut, the Midwestern crime drama "The Lookout".
