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...interested in style, a suspect idea then but one that his paintings are none the worse for raising. We can't see Kline the way the art world did 40 years ago, when critics wrote about his "desperate shriek" or his "total and instantaneous conversion" to black and white. Ab Ex was less apocalyptic than its fans once thought, and Kline...
...settle in America. The Amerind, who predominate in most of North and South America, possess only type O blood; among the Na-Dene, who cluster in Alaska, Canada and the U.S. Southwest, O prevails but A makes an appearance; in the Alaskan and Canadian Inuit (Eskimo), A, B, AB and O blood groups show the pattern seen in the rest of the world...
...deal with Abstract Expressionism. Everyone in the late '50s and early '60s did; that came with the fact of being an American artist. But his solution was cunning: he created an irritably stylish version of Ab-Ex gesture, in which the all-over squiggles of Pollock got absorbed into the loopier, body-based rhythms of '40s De Kooning. In effect, he turned Pollock's rococo lacework into its cruder cousin, graffiti. Did this imply a degree of loss? Certainly; but loss (and a barely suppressed anger at it) is one of the chief themes of Twombly's art. Its model...
Linguistics Aa and Ab, "Beginning American Sign Language," were deleted from the department's course offerings because "the funding money simply ran out," said linguistics department chair Michael S. Flier...
Physics I student Pratima Gupta '96, for instance, vividly remembers one particular graduate student who might not have passed a high school-level Calculus AB exam...