Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Early on in the season when things weren't going so well, it was easy to talk about going undefeated as an abstract sort of a thing," co-captain Kelly Black said. "Now that we're close to realizing our goal, we're ready...
Meanwhile the Russians seem to be falling in love with economics. This is because Russia still has to indoctrinate the fundamentals of economic theory into its people. We have outgrown this need and have found that modern Americans have very little use for highly abstract and sophisticated theories that fail to explain reality. In order for Russia's transition to a free-market system to be both permanent and stable, grounding economic theories in its children seems to be a must. American children know it naturally; Russian children must be taught it. So while it may strike us as strange...
Probably all three. He cites the non-narrative, almost abstract films he made as a student at the University of Southern California 30 years ago as touchstones for the kinds of films he'd really like to make--pure cinema--and plans to make once he's done with what he calls "this theatrical thing" or "this theatrical immersion." That's a reference to his 25-year career as a commercial filmmaker, which he makes sound as if it were merely a phase he's going through, like a teenage girl shoplifting nail polish. Some phase: after writing and directing...
Since the mid 1970s, artists have increasingly turned towards the human body as a subject, following years when criticism favored Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. Both "Herb Ritts: Work" and "Face and Figure" illustrate this trend, yet Ritts' photographs tend to stress formal considerations over content. His celebrity portraits and even his riskier homoerotic photographs are all highly aestheticized, easily consumable images-- perfect for the sides of note pads, tote bags and mugs...
Intriguing, visually beautiful, but emotionally distant, Campion's "Portrait" is a spare one--or rather, an abstract one with spaces that are left to the viewer to fill. In the end, viewers will get as much out of it as they are willing to pull from it. Campion doesn't give any answers, only openended questions, powerful in their suggestivenes but frustrating in their essential opacity...