Word: abstractable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dialogue becomes as abstract and apaque as a Berginan film, but through it all the characters prevail. Fitzpatrick instills a morbidly farcical nature into Gustav which culminates in his mimicry of an epileptic seizure to horrify Adolf. Ulin carefully uses his entire body to express the helpless frustration of a man crippled physically and spiritually...
...emphasizing trust and unilateral gestures of good will. Conservatives saw in foreign policy the eternal struggle of good with evil, a Manichaean conflict that recognized no middle ground and could end only with total victory. Deterrence ran up against liberal ideology and its emotional evocation of peace in the abstract; coexistence grated on the liturgical anti-Communism of the right, for there could be no compromise with the devil...
...trot routines that earned him the nickname the "dancing madonna," to the exact spot where an artificial tulip stood in his Paris studio (painted white, leaves and all, so as not to offend his eye with the detestable color green). Like Kandinsky, the other fa ther figure of abstract painting, he was a Theosophist: a man given to dreams of the millennium, when material reality would wither away and leave an ideal domain of the pure spirit. Art would help in this great, vague process. Though words were hard to sunder from the sublunary mire of things, art could become...
DIED. Julian Levi, 81, painter and teacher whose work drifted from conventional seascapes to semi-abstract scenes; of a heart attack; in New York City...
Redlich emphasized Shelton's broad social concerns rather than his particular political attachments. "He nevear got into that abstract stuff." Redlich said...