Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of the more than 4000 runners who tackled the arduous race course, the cement walls and damp, chilled air of the garage was a welcome end, a retreat from a grueling test of stamina and determination...
...display a wide, ironic complicity with art history while making no final commitment to a "way" of drawing. The drawing works because he so obviously possesses each style. It is imitation without flattery. As a dandy, Steinberg owns all the hats in his wardrobe. A still life like Belgian Air Mail 1971, is not a "cubist-type" drawing, a thing done in homage to Braque and Picasso. It is rather a drawing about cubism, seen as one stylistic mannerism among others in the art-historical supermarket...
...next year. 1943, Steinberg enlisted in the Navy and became a U.S. citizen. He was at once assigned to Intelligence and posted successively to Ceylon, to Calcutta and then, masquerading as a weather observer with the 14th Air Force (his knowledge of meteorology being slight), to Kunming in China. His task was to act as a go-between with friendly Chinese guerrillas. Since he spoke little English and less Chinese, he drew pictures for them. It was a small but poignant metaphor of once r ...... and future Sino-American incomprehension...
...place in 500 years, and it took place the day we arrived." Steinberg likes to look back on those journeys. "I loved to arrive in a new place and face the new situations, like one newly born who sees life for the first time, when it still has the air of fiction. It lasts one day." The late '40s and '50s were perhaps the last time in Europe when travel was travel, unfiltered and not homogenized by mass tourism. It must have appealed to Steinberg as a form of controlled exile?the mask of expatriation...
...coach and full varsity status, took advantage of the Crimson's lapse to forge ahead and cruise across the finish line, going away in a time of 5:48 over the 1500-meter course. Radcliffe glided across in 5:56, while Cornell, enjoying the scenery and crisp sea air, finished last (well, let's be charitable and say "third...