Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London to Chicago; it opened this month at its final stop, New York City's Brooklyn Museum. With its 52 paintings, the show spans less than 20 years, from 1965 to 1982. It is a highly edited affair that says nothing about Morley's background as an abstract painter, but a great deal about his foreground as a figurative...
...liners, enlarged from postcards and publicity brochures. But their method was peculiarly systematic, a parody of system, in fact. Squaring the postcard image up to canvas size, Morley would work on it patch by patch, sometimes upside down, stippling away so that each bit of water or hull looked abstract to him, as patterns do when they are isolated and magnified. What counted was not so much the liner as the process of painting it, a concretion of gratuitous labor. If Canaletto had been exposed to minimalism and to early Warhol, he might have come up looking like early Morley...
Fortunately for Harvard and unfortunately for your sense of abstract justice the winner of each of the three ECAC divisions gains the home ice advantage in the journey's opening round of eight. The divine forces that shaped the ECAC never imagined that the best team in one of the division would ever limp through the 21 game campaign with just as many losses as wins and thus reduce the playoff to an NHL style you get invited if you don't manage to lose 80 percent of your games along...
...acceptance speech before the Central Committee, Chernenko tried hard to allay the misgivings he must have known many of his countrymen felt. "Continuity," he said, "is not an abstract notion. It is a living, real cause." He praised Andropov and urged that the best tribute the nation could pay the late Soviet leader would be to "carry on and further advance" his work. But Chernenko also called on party activists to "realistically evaluate what has been accomplished, neither exaggerating nor belittling...
...introducing the President at Eureka, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald recalled the familiar debate in the academic world between those who believe history is made by individuals and those who think it is the result of abstract, faceless forces. Said Grunwald: "We at TIME have always sided with the former school. In that spirit, TIME started out by putting a person on its cover every week, and the mainstay of that cover is still people." Grunwald called the Distinguished Speakers Program a "logical extension" of this tenet, one that would put TIME cover subjects "in direct touch with...