Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faculty. Life became a succession of successes. He had close and congenial friends in Painters Niles Spencer, Louis Bouché and Peggy Bacon (whom he married in 1920), and every year seemed to bring on a new academic fellowship or another award. Until the tidal wave of abstract art inundated the galleries, no show of contemporary U.S. art seemed complete without an Alexander Brook...
Since the war, Katz has moved into some of the more abstract branches of physics, particularly those dealing with atomic nuclei. Currently, he is trying to determine the existence of the "magnetic pole"--a hypothetical particle some investigators assume to be present in cosmic rays...
Charging into the cavernous lobby of New England's biggest movie theater, the man with the big cigar gestured expansively at an abstract mosaic in ceramic tile. "Looka that, friend," he roared. "Know what it cost? Twelve big ones [i.e., $12,000]." Newly refurbished and reopened as the Music Hall, Boston's old, 4,250-seat Metropolitan Theater was undeniably cinemajestic. So, in his own way, is its boss-hefty (6 ft., 240 lbs.) Ben Sack...
...like good music." All jazz started off "boo-boo-boo-boo-boo," complained the Soviet Premier, setting it to his own clopping time by dancing a jig on the front lawn of Spaso House. Russian or American, it was all Chinese to him, and so was that other whatchamacallit, abstract art. Amateur Painter Dwight Eisenhower once told him that modern art "makes me sick to the stomach," and Nikita bobbed his head approvingly: "It's the same with...
...collection is as comprehensive a view of American art today as can be found. It ranges in style from Edward Hopper's clean-limned piece of Americana, done in 1960, to an eerie "combine" by Robert Rauschenberg. A shimmering forest scene by Charles Burchfield complements a Sam Francis abstraction showing swirls of blue dancing a quadrille across the canvas. The great precisionist Charles Sheeler, usually associated with geometric views of industrial America, is represented by an extraordinarily lyrical landscape bathed in twilight. John Wilde has a delightfully funny fantasy called Happy, Crazy, American Animals and a Man and Lady...