Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...space. It was, so to speak, more muted and pastoral: harmless scratches, small obscenities, chalk on Roman distemper. To adopt graffiti to the painted canvas was to pay homage to European art informel -- Fautrier, Wols and especially Jean Dubuffet. Their influence plays on Twombly's earliest paintings of the 1950s, with their lumpish glandular forms, the movement of the paint slowed up by mixing it with earth but then accelerated by a nervous, hairy scratching around the edges...
...producer testifying before Congress at the end of Quiz Show. "We're in show business." By this point in Robert Redford's critically acclaimed new movie, no one can miss the irony of that line. The people who conspired to rig the big-money quiz shows in the 1950s, according to the film, were criminals all right -- and not despite but because of the fact that they were in show business. These connivers didn't just feed a few answers to favored contestants to boost ratings. They destroyed a nation's innocence. (Yes, again...
...humorist--a celebrity since the 1950s currently performing his one-man show at the Hasty Pudding Theater--expressed strong confidence that the majority of American people still want to hear the truth...
That sort of diversity has won the band critical plaudits over the years. In the 1950s, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald wrote: "The immortal Sousa himself would be proud of this cultured collection of blowers and beaters...
...fact, take Carlock's quote, substitute the words "Black person" for "women," and you have a phrase right out of the 1950s South. The explanation is a tired one: in the 1950s, racists said Blacks shouldn't be allowed in white-only establishments because they would feel uncomfortable there. Similarly, Carlock is saying today that women shouldn't be allowed in the final clubs because they'd have a tough time fitting in with all those sexists. How thoughtful...