Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often in recent years, Frankenthaler seems to have been content with the merely evocative. "Soapsuds and whitewash!" was the cry when Turner exhibited his more abstract seapieces, but it seems to apply more properly to Frankenthaler's atmosphere-laden abstract paintings of the '80s, with their elaborately swoony brushwork and cunning embellishments of not-quite- naturalistic light. They are very assured but seem a touch overpleased with their own sensitivity. Yet it would be a pity, all the same, if the present decade's recoil from the inflated historical claims made for color-field painting stopped one from enjoying this...
...tenuous, the observer just may be right. And if he is, that bond between two once disparate elements could haunt Deng and his successors for a long time to come. A similar connection between intellectuals and workers gave rise to the Solidarity movement that rocked Poland in the early '80s. China's leaders had been fretting about the similarities between the student movement and the Solidarity campaign. Tellingly, when officials ordered arrests last week, three of the 14 people who were briefly detained were members of a new, unauthorized union...
...tennis team falls to Pepperdine, 7-2, in its first of many NCAA appearances in the '80s...
June: The men's heavyweight crew wins its third national championship of the '80s...
April 1: Harvard finally wins its first NCAA championship, capping the '80s with the men's hockey team's 4-3 win over Minnesota in the NCAA final in Minneapolis. Ed Krayer beats Robb Stauber with a backhander for the game-winner in overtime. Please see story, page...