Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just what is a First Lady supposed to do? In the late 20th century the very phrase has an anachronistic scent, musty and perfumed like Great Grandmother's sachet. Yet Presidents' wives still face criticism for fiddling with the affairs of state, for doing anything much more than looking well groomed and making bland statements on behalf of unexceptionable philanthropies. The day- to-day duties of the job are no snap. Nancy Reagan plans and presides over some 20 big White House dinners each year, and makes an official appearance just about every day of the week...
...main facts of contemporary art is the resurgence of figurative expressionism, it seems ridiculous that the East should not see what, despite some trimming, amounts to the definitive exhibition of the man, born a century ago in 1884, who was the greatest German painter of the 20th century...
...through his fears and find history on the other side of them. Beckmann's art was poised, so to speak, between the sleepwalk and the goose step; on its rigorous and masculine frame are nailed the private splendors and public horrors of the first half of the 20th century...
...serious campaign by a black American, brought countless new voters into the political process, even if their hopes did end in at least partial disillusion. His address to the Democratic Convention last summer, an astonishing display of his rhetorical resources, was one of the memorable speeches of the late 20th century...
...some of the figures nearly twice lifesize. Tacked unstretched to the wall like tapestries or (as Golub prefers to think of them) like skins, they resembled, in their stark silhouetting and red earth-colored backgrounds, Roman frescoes whose surfaces had been corrupted by the blackening breath of the late 20th century...