Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea was never seriously considered. "The R-word was absolutely forbidden," says an outside expert who attended health adviser Ira Magaziner's planning meetings. Quite shrewdly, it seems. In most opinion polls, citizens lean against rationing, even in the abstract...
...their best work long after the movements they were first associated with had lost their impetus. Stuart Davis, for instance, was a far better painter in the 1930s than in the 1920s. The full unfolding of Robert Motherwell's talent, particularly in collage, happened after the prime years of Abstract Expressionism, and the same is true of Lee Krasner. (Not that it matters to this show, which includes neither of them...
Michael Mao Dance Company. Twelve-member company presents the Boston premiere of "Motion Without View," an abstract piece inspired by the plight of more than 100 Cambodian women who suffer from traumatic blindness, set to a percussive score by Michael Raye. Oct. 2, 8 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, 84 Mass Ave. $7.50 for students. Call 491-3133 for more information...
...there is one parent of each gender. Rarely is that the choice. Custody battles arise because parents split up. Children available for adoption have already lost their birth parents. Children conceived by artificial insemination would not otherwise have been born. For Tyler Bottoms and countless children like him, abstract assumptions about bettering his future mean far less than the present pain and confusion of having his family at odds over...
Until now, Matthews, which was essentially gutted and refitted, has undergone the most dramatic transformation. Gone is the dry wall surrounding the staircases--which hid a metal rail from the 1920s that has been uncovered, repainted and extended upward. Gone is the abstract wood sculpture from the 1960s. Gone are the rats (or so hope administrators...