Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local patron, New York City Mayor Ed Koch, whose vituperative attacks on Jackson further polluted the city's dense ethnic atmosphere and totally obscured Gore's own image. Local TV cameras repeatedly captured Gore looking bewildered, like a farm boy being fleeced by a Times Square three-card-monte artist, as Koch lashed out at Jackson's shortcomings...
...young man, Ballard was drawn to surrealist art and its realistic images of fantasies. He retains this enthusiasm. Using money he earned from Empire of the Sun, he commissioned an artist to re-create two paintings by the Belgian Paul Delvaux that had been destroyed in London during the Blitz. One of these large canvases sits in Ballard's front parlor, and the other presides over his workroom, an unsettling tableau of dream maidens and bare breasts in an otherwise comfortable setting. "Sadly," Ballard says, "the only surrealists around these days are psychopaths. But we all need to fight...
...making connections at cocktail parties, bad-mouthing fellow-workers to his boss and jetting to exotic lands to work out deals. His significant other, Fran (Alice Manning), is just as stereotypical (but then, don't they always come in twos). She feels her pink-collar job as a graphics artist fails to stimulate her intellect and is unsatisfied with her romantic life. So Fran sleeps with...Peter (Peter Crombie), Paul's old '60s throwback friend, who at least talks of the old idealism even if he too has actually lost...
...variety of experiences people have in their house. Winthrop residents would probably have preferred "crowded" to any other description of their three-year home by the Charles. But it wasn't on the list. Also, isn't an athlete likely to describe his House as "athletic," or an artist as "artistic," no matter what other people think? Finally, who knows whether a certain House is "civilized" or "distinctive" or "stimulating"? I don't, and so I didn't check those descriptions...
Mutter and Mullova are just two of the many women violinists of talent and temperament now gracing the world's stages. Korean-born Kyung-Wha Chung, 40, shared first prize in the Leventritt Competition with Pinchas Zukerman in 1967, and has since established herself as a major artist on the strength of her burnished tone and fiery passagework. Chung is a performer of great interpretative range and insight who can light up the night with a blazing Tchaikovsky concerto, probe the intimate, sorrowing mysteries of Alban Berg's twelve-tone essay in the form, or tackle Sir Edward Elgar...