Word: arid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year the results are often tonic, enjoyable and full of hope. Some shoots of real vitality have been emerging from the conceptual rubble of late modernism. Although there is nostalgia for the arid pieties of yesteryear-Peter Lodato's two blank 11-ft.-high rectangles at the Whitney, for instance-the general tone is unsystematic, quirkish and opposed to movements. So much so, indeed, that curatorial bias gets in the way. No one is likely to miss minimal art, but the total exclusion of color-field painting reflects as much bigotry as its absolute dominance did ten years...
...Lambertville, N.J., homeowners are being urged to use toilets three or four times before flushing. Throughout the Midwest, farm land that was left parched and crumbly by 90° to 100° temperatures last summer remains arid because so little snow has fallen on the Plains states...
...formal innovators of modern sculpture-and her contribution to its syntax cannot fairly be compared with Picasso's, Tatlin's, Brancusi's or even David Smith's-she has a very deep reservoir of feeling that has infused her art and saves it from looking arid or repetitious. As a sculptor of feeling, her only peer among living American artists is Isamu Noguchi. In a time of short careers and small careerists, in a commercialized art world strewn with cultural ghosts and aesthetic trivia, her obsessed, delicate and nocturnal imagination remains unusual, a legacy from...
...contempt that many Easterners felt toward what map makers then labeled the Great American Desert. Even today, the eight states strung out along the Rocky Mountains are collectively the nation's most thinly settled (12 inhabitants per square mile, vs. 62 overall in the U.S.) and the most arid (12 in. rainfall, vs. 29 nationwide). Yet in addition to their wild beauty, these Mountain States contain such a magnificent array of national treasures that they are now being developed at a rate that may within a lifetime enrich them, or ruin them, or both...
...Homecoming, Sherlock Holmes-exported and expanded from local events to international successes. There are no plans to tour Nicholas Nickleby-the production is too costly and absorbs too much of the company-but Piaf, an intense piece about the French chanteuse, will open in New York this winter, arid The Three Sisters will be taped for TV. Past and present members of the company often turn up on their own in outside productions. Ian McKellen, an actor of formidable power who left the company in 1978, has since starred in the London production of Martin Sherman's Bent...