Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main aesthetic guide in collecting was art critic Leo Stein, Gertrude's brother. His intellectual mentor was the educator John Dewey, whose book Democracy and Education formed his ideas about education for "the masses" through art. After 1918, Barnes' acquisitions became obsessive. His biggest spree was in the early '20s, when he went charging through Paris waving his checkbook (earning the disapproval of Gertrude Stein, who thought him vulgar) and haggling like a mule trader. The postwar market for modern art was low, and Barnes got nearly everything he wanted, including, as he later boasted, the entire contents...
...seemed dull and overexposed. Nobody could love and only a hurricane could budge the red mobile that hangs, like a glider beefed up to the size of a DC-3, from the roof of the East Building of Washington's National Gallery of Art. Calder's genius in the '20s and '30s was for making extraordinarily delicate and literally "wiry" sculptures that danced at a breath. However close you got to them, they still seemed distant in their fragility; in extreme cases, like the wonderful Tightrope, 1937, with its wire personages balancing on a string between two balks of wood...
...Giardi (2), Tedrow, BPs Harvard 2, BU 1. Len Harvard 10, BU 11, 20s Hill, Giardi, Madden, Donato. 3B: None. HR: Morgan, SSt Hill, Morgan, Donste, Auflero OSt None. Harvard IP N BR BS SO Alien, W (2-0) 9 10 1 1 2 8 BU IP N BR BS SO Goldstein, L (1-5) 0.2 6 8 5 0 0 Anselmo 3.1 5 2 2 1 1 Brown 3 4 3 3 1 0 Cohen 0 0 0 0 1 0 Millstein...
...reputation for skepticism. One doesn't want to be thought of as a cadre or a Moonie, like those absurd Reaganites of the early- to mid-1980s. Nor does one want to be associated with the real Clintonite swooners, not all of whom are youths in their 20s...
Variations: one woman who has been married three times and divorced three times uses all four available last names, changing them as if she were changing outfits, according to mood or season. More commonly it happens that a woman has made her professional reputation, in her 20s and 30s, while using the name of her first husband, then gets divorced and possibly remarried, but remains stuck with the first husband's name in the middle of her three-name procession...