Word: archaicism
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...best man win? In politics, that expression threatens to become archaic. Three major contests on Election Day will be all-female affairs. Mikulski and Chavez are only the second pair of women in U.S. history to win the nominations of both major parties in a Senate campaign.* In Nebraska, State Treasurer Kay Orr, a Republican, is running against former Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis, a Democrat, in the country's first all-woman gubernatorial race. In Maryland's Second Congressional District, Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert Kennedy's daughter, will oppose incumbent Helen Delich Bentley...
...also worth remembering, now that everyone takes for granted the rightness of open landscape as a site for sculpture, that he did more than any other artist of his time to rekindle that idea and recover some of its archaic roots. Moore's King and Queen, 1952-53, gazing out over the stony ocean of Scottish moors, are the descendants not of 18th century garden sculpture but of something older, more vital and mysterious: the chthonic spirit of place embodied in the dolmens of Carnac or Stonehenge...
...stone carving of the Mexican rain-god Chacmool gave him the crankshaft rhythm of shoulders, waist, pelvis and thighs that would surface in his own figures from the late '20s on. Cezanne's ponderous and sculptural Bathers spoke to his own obsessions with the reclining figure. Archaic sculpture of every kind, especially Mayan and Aegean, fortified his lifelong interest in totems and sentinel figures; and then there were Donatello and Michelangelo, the painted figures of Masaccio and, perhaps most challenging to him in his maturity, the sculptures of Giovanni Pisano in Siena and Pisa, not far from the marble quarries...
...with the past. Without the culture of the salon and the Academy, no Matisse; you cannot imagine a work like Constantin Brancusi's Caryatid, 1940, without its triple root in the peasant woodcarvings of the artist's native Rumania, his study of African sculpture and his passion for the archaic Mediterranean...
...worse, would they be too long, as Senators postured on parochial issues for cable-TV addicts back home? And what if viewers discovered that "the world's greatest deliberative body" was often a crashing bore? Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana complained quite accurately that the Senate's archaic rules and long, meandering speeches would not air well. "Unlimited debate," Johnston reminded his colleagues, "is not pretty." But TV is everywhere in America, and because of it, the White House and the House of Representatives, which has been televised live on the C-SPAN cable network since 1979, seemed...