Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became conscious that this was more than an abstract experience. It was a concrete experience of which I had personal knowledge," David says...
...ultimately the allure of returning to the hospital has little to do with abstract notions of community building...
...Willem de Kooning died last week at the age of 92, it did not come as a surprise; he had succumbed to senile dementia years before, and a sort of deathwatch had settled over the art world as it observed, at a distance, the slow sinking of the last Abstract Expressionist. Now they were all definitively gone, the artists who put American art on the world map after 1945: Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and the transplanted Dutchman who jumped ship into the New World in 1926 and settled in New York as an illegal...
...Kooning, however, was inherently a corporeal artist. His best work had a wonderful libidinousness, a way of using the body of paint to access and encompass the body of the world. To call it abstract, even when it was most so, is to ignore this. In what was probably his finest painting, Excavation, 1950, one sees desire at full stretch: every form carries its physical freight--elbow, groin, folded belly, thigh, slipping and jostling in the paint as though mud wrestling in pigment. De Kooning could find metaphors of energy that none of his contemporaries could rival. And when...
...national debate about recidivism among sexual offenders. The Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a Kansas law allowing the state to confine violent sexual criminals in mental hospitals beyond their prison terms, citing no mental illness other than a predisposition to similar crimes. The case is not abstract: Kansas is currently holding multiple-sex-crimes offender Leroy Hendricks, 62, whose sentence has expired but who has testified that only death can prevent him from molesting again. During oral arguments, several Justices seemed to share the concerns of critics like Harvey W. Kushner, chairman of the criminal-justice department...