Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pictures of Rock Hudson and Doris Day are pinned on the walls of Philippine homes right beside the family crucifix, and a Budapest newspaper recently exhorted its readers to imitate the manners in My Fair Lady. Bestselling books in the U.S. frequently become bestsellers in West Germany. The whole abstract-expressionist movement that originated in the U.S. with Jackson Pollock has spread to almost every continent...
...Abstract as it may seem to many critics, the law is ever refreshed by weird conflicts that reflect the earthy tragicomedies of human life...
...architecture has recourse to Moorish arches of the typical multifoil horseshoe type. In keeping with the mellow glow that permeates the script, Armstrong has used light buff walls with abstract Turkish surface decoration--a gold for Duke Orsino's palace, and in pink and blue for Lady Olivia's house...
...plane flies on weekends at a discotheque in Fillmore Auditorium, where projectors flash quivering, amoeba-like patterns on the walls to induce the dancers "to take a 'trip' [an LSD experience] without drugs." One of the Airplane's "trip songs" is Running Around the World, an abstract number that, says Balin, celebrates the "fantastic experience of making love while under...
...whirl, and metal mirrors wiggle back and forth fun-house style. By eliminating the human figure, and even human scale, Le Pare runs opposite to pop or any art style. He strikes out for a world where science and art meet, where absurdity is nonetheless fact, where reality, however abstract in appearance, is still reality and thus worthy of contemplation...