Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, 16 hours a day, I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for 17 hours..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"). Until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levins...
...first, but when I walked onto that set, I started to become obsessed with film." Now the magnificent obsession has led to a new job in which the former actress and model will continue to face tough hombres. Last week Lansing, 35, was named president of production at 20th Century-Fox Pictures, putting her in charge of the development and management of the company's feature films...
Though Chairman Dennis Stanfill and several other officers of the diversified 20th Century-Fox rank above her, Lansing becomes the top American woman in the male-chauvinist world of film production. She will earn close to $300,000 a year in salary and could also collect more than $1 million in bonuses if she finds and develops a string of hits...
...equivalent of an experienced sensation"; or the 1890 self-portrait by Edouard Vuillard, done in brilliant polemical slabs of nonnaturalist color. But it is to the great paintings at the center of the exhibition that one returns, those hinges upon which art swung from the 19th century into the 20th, disclosing a new amplitude of color and form as it turned. Rarely does one get a chance to see a wall of Gauguins like the one in the Royal Academy, and the late paintings, such as Annah the Javanese, 1893, make one realize how complete was the liberation of feeling...
...however, the petrified images produced by late 19th and early 20th century photography are tragically apposite. The Russian people were living under a volcano: "A rumbling, fire-spitting mountain, down whose sides, behind clouds of ashes, roll streams of red-hot lava," as the poet Alexander Blok perceived Russia in 1908. When the final eruption came in October 1917, it engulfed the nation's past. The Russian Empire's vigorous intellectual life, its fantastic cultural diversity-even the distinctive imprint of its history-were effaced...