Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...build theory by observing and becoming involved in practice. There is a problem in the world and you set out to figure out how to solve it," says Susskind, who adds that he sees no useful distinction between abstract theory and practical application...
...guidance from a committee appointed in 1982 by the state of Victoria to study legal questions raised by IVF technology. The committee's report is due within two months, and with the embryos' fate hanging in the balance, its conclusions are no longer a matter of abstract theorizing. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Deborah Kaplan/Los Angeles and Ann Westmore/Melbourne
DIED. Lee Krasner, 75, pioneer abstract expressionist painter of the New York School, whose mastery of draftsmanship and color, informed by an angry toughness and an exceptionally strong sense of rhythm, showed the influence of Matisse and Picasso as well as Jackson Pollock, her husband from 1945 until his death in 1956; after a long illness; in New York City. When they met in 1936, the Brooklyn-born Krasner was the better credentialed of the two and helped move Pollock toward the avantgarde. She continued to paint in a mutually respectful, noncompetitive partnership with him during the years of poverty...
...like the theater much," says Wilson, who has been challenging conventional notions of what constitutes the genre for 15 years. "But I love the abstract, fluttering visual patterns of ballet, and I think that is basically what I've done in theater: architectural landscapes that are structured...
...first public gesture toward autobiography. Yet for all the apparent candor of these remarks, buyers should still beware. Pynchon criticizes the young writer he once was on a number of counts: for having a tin ear for dialogue, for tailoring plots and characters to the design of abstract concepts, for using language as a form of showing off: "I will spare everybody a detailed discussion of all the overwriting that occurs in these stories, except to mention how distressed I am at the number of tendrils that keep showing up. I still don't even know for sure what...