Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arms spread wide to the applause. It stands out among the over 100 pictures, including some fine old shots of Ruth and Gehrig, which give this book the quality of a family picture album. The appendix lists the all-time Yankee statistical leaders and provides a game-by-game abstract of DiMaggio's streak and Maris's miracle year. And there's smooth writing throughout, particularly in Anderson's chapter on the DiMaggio years...
Leda Cosmides '79, an organizer of the rally, said yesterday, "A lot of people aren't taking the draft seriously yet because it's an abstract thing...
Similarly, the special effects, designed by Richard Green, seem promising, but ultimately become distractions and reduce the impact of some find performances. A film of abstract shapes, depicting the thoughts of the deaf, dumb, and blind Tommy ends up frying your eyeballs while conveying no impression of mental activity by any actor on stage at the time. The electronic music heralding Tommy's return to awareness competes with a band more than capable of communicating the power of the moment...
...Implicit Image: Abstract Painting in the Seventies--Nielsen Gallery, 179 Newbury St., April 29-June...
...Chashnik, devised reliefs and models that in their crisscross of small rectangular shapes and larger blocks resemble models for imaginary buildings or cities. They were, in a very rarefied sense, social blueprints, though quite unworkable ones. Perhaps Russia was the only country in which artists could seriously imagine that abstract art might attain the moral compulsion of a holy picture. Chashnik's Large Suprematist Relief (1920-26), finished a few years before he died at 27, lays no stress on its materials; it is a pure proposition of the kind of half religious ideal that was soon...