Word: arcadia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fragments in Twombly's pictures seems to have convinced his more ardent admirers that he's a classicist, saturated in the myths and literature of the ancient Mediterranean, exuding them from every pictorial pore. All he has to do is scrawl a wobbly triumph of galatea or et in arcadia ego on a canvas, and suddenly he's up there with Roberto Calasso, if not Edward Gibbon. When an audience that has lost all touch with the classical background once considered indispensable in education sees virgil written in a picture, it accepts it as a logo, like the alligator...
...told me that this was the worst [quake] he has experienced since he has been [in Los Angeles], and he's lived there for 25 years," said Eugene E. Kim '96, who comes from Arcadia...
...unlock his nostalgia for experiences he was old enough to have had but didn't -- he went into a pilot training program in Mississippi in 1944 and might have been that pink boy embracing his sweetheart in front of the bomber. His girls are the nymphs of a lost Arcadia of gush, as remote from us now as Gibson girls were from the '60s. Their innocence is oddly counterpointed by the naivete with which they are painted...
...story of Arcadia is, like most Stoppard plots, hard to summarize in much less than the three hours it takes on the stage. The action in both centuries unfolds in a stately home, a symbol at once of Britain's continuity and of its decay. The 19th century story focuses on a startlingly gifted 13-year-old girl and her tutor, a seemingly shallow, smug university man a decade older. The 20th century story focuses on the present generation of the girl's landed family and on two biographers who are probing Byron's connections to the house, investigating...
MUSIC A luminous CD set affirms the Beach Boys' place in pop history. THEATER Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is the best British play in years. BOOKS David Halberstam engrossingly surveys The Fifties. A brilliant, flawed novel by Richard Powers. CINEMA Rookie of the Year strikes out. SHOW BUSINESS Disney offers an uninspired stage extravaganza...