Word: abstraction
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...parents think their two-year-olds can splatter paint as well as Jackson Pollock. But ED HARRIS can attest that neither task is as simple as it seems. The actor is making his directorial debut--and playing the lead role--in a film based on the abstract expressionist, a project that has consumed Harris for six years. "It became a personal project," says Harris, "and I didn't want to hand it over to anyone else to direct...
...sense of loss for John Kennedy, too, like Milton's sense of loss, is more abstract than personal, and yet is personally felt because it connects with our private hopes for bright young futures. Nothing is as attractive as the sight of young people flinging boisterously into life (see the American women's soccer team), and the thrill comes as much from wishing them well as from anything of their own doing. Admirable young people speak for life itself, and when they stop suddenly, everything stops...
...This year we'll muddle through," Rudenstine told The Crimson in the spring, "but within 12 to 24 months, we'll be looking at disaster...It is not an abstract concern...
...This year we'll muddle through," Rudenstine told The Crimson in the spring, "but within 12 to 24 months, we'll be looking at disaster.... It is not an abstract concern...
...This year we'll muddle through," Rudenstine told The Crimson, "but within 12 to 24 months, we'll be looking at disaster....It is not an abstract concern...