Word: 1960s
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...last weeks at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington (it runs through Jan. 10) is one of the sleepers of the fall season. It deserves attention from anyone who cares about the history of art made by women in America -- and, in general, of sculpture since the 1960s. Hesse died of brain cancer in 1970 at 34, an age at which most artists' careers are barely under way. Yet no American sculptor in her generation has more to tell us, through her work, about being a woman. To an astonishing degree, she personalized Minimalism, the artistic context to which she belonged...
...bourgeois German household has been banished in favor of an American apartment decorated in 1960s high tacky. The Stahlbaum children get a giant Barbie doll and a spaceman at their family Christmas Eve party. The guests are dressed in the worst excesses of a quarter-century ago, and before long they are drunk and lubricious. Postmodern choreographer Mark Morris, never at a loss for a flip word or gesture, insists that his take on the Tchaikovsky classic is not a send-up, but that is exactly what it is -- rude, boisterous and more than a little, well, nutty...
Based on a moldering script by director Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin, Toys is informed by a sensibility still more antique: 1960s peacenik. It posits a conflict for control of a family toy company between a near holy fool (Robin Williams) and his uncle, a retired Army general (Michael Gambon) who wants to convert the plant to military-weapons production. Both are predictable types. Their employees are so sweetly innocent one longs for Hoffa's Teamsters to come in and give them mean lessons. But everyone's main function is to trigger special effects and lend scale to production designer...
While Rainwater's research of the 1960s focused on the culture of poverty in the United States, his most recent work has aimed to compare poverty data and social policy initiatives from different nations, said Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer. "His own orientation has been that we [in the U.S.] tend to place the level of poverty really too low," he said...
...Catholic clerics have been accused of child molestation, costing the church roughly $400 million in damage payments and other expenses. Now one of the biggest cases is over. The Fall River, Massachusetts, diocese reached an out-of-court settlement with 68 persons who said they were abused in the 1960s by Father James Porter and accused the diocese of ignoring his misdeeds. The accusers, who agreed not to disclose the financial terms, were sober in victory. Cash "is not a medicine. It won't make any one of us healthy," said Peter Calderone. Porter, now married, out of the priesthood...