Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make the week a banner occasion there was yet another unveiling: a massive 50-ton rose granite abstract sculpture placed in the garden of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Hewn out of three 100-ton blocks in a Spanish quarry by Eduardo Chillida, 42, the work was commissioned by Houston's Endowment Inc. To accompany the gift, Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney has assembled the first U.S. retrospective of Chillida, a man who. only began sculpting in 1948, was a Carnegie prize-winner in 1964, and today ranks as Spain's leading abstract sculptor. His granite giant...
...Festival's best film, Robert Bresson's "Au Hasard, Balthazar," went largely unheralded. Bresson's austere French film, made in 1965-66, confronts huge abstract themes, including time, love, and coincidence. Bresson creates some of the most enigmatic and interesting characters in all film, including a beautiful fatalistic young girl who is finally killed by the leader of a motorcycle gang, and a Christ-like town drunk who is perhaps a murderer...
Today she and her husband have a well-equipped machine shop of their own in Paris where they arc-weld great quantities of stainless steel and brass tubing into abstract sculptures that exude a confidence in the mechanical world and at the same time, from certain oblique angles, suddenly open up all manner of allusions to nature. With success, their concepts and commissions have grown steadily bigger. "Using our welding technique," says Brigitte, "there is no limit." For Germany's Tubingen University, they are now putting the finishing touches on a 49-ft.-long commission, their largest to date...
Godard's latest installment, subtitled The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola, is a cubistic jigsaw-puzzle picture of the go-go generation. In his usual abrupt abstract style, Godard scatters the screen with dissociated pieces of plot: a Marx-marked high school dropout (Jean-Pierre Leaud) meets and mates a Coke-stoked rock-'n'-roll belter (Chantal Goya), but not long after dies in an absurd accident, leaving the girl to face an amateur abortion performed with a curtain rod. The puzzle is further complicated by irrelevancies: switchblade suicide, lesbian interlude, subway murder, movie within...
...without blunting the purpose of Dame Rebecca's book, which was to explain the double agent's rationale. Kamensky had a real-life counterpart, one levno Aseff, who operated around the turn of the century, accepting missions from Russian revolutionaries as well as from the Czar. The abstract motivation that Dame Rebecca gives to Kamensky would have baffled such a man as Aseff...