Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hottest day of the year, good people can do bad things. Especially in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn's black ghetto where the crime rate sizzles and hopes evaporate in the summer glare. Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is the story of a day in the death of the American Dream...
...lifeless reappearance raises a number of troubling questions. Murder? Bad. Suicide? Much better. In the good old days, the inconvenient matter could have been put on ice until the ship returned to its home port of Vladivostok, where the official party whitewash would have explained everything. Not now. The ship's captain understands the new realities: "The problem is the Americans. They will watch to see whether we conduct an open and forthright investigation...
...Bad popular artists come and go, but there is a degree of aesthetic literacy that cannot be faked. Wilmarth's originality was of the only kind that counts, born of long reflection on the past. He was a child of the museum, which is why this posthumous show seems so much like a homecoming. He was steeped in a great tradition of which the exemplars were, in poetry, Stephane Mallarme; in painting, Henri Matisse; in sculpture, Constantin Brancusi. Wilmarth was a man of wide visual curiosity, but of all modernist movements the one that interested him most was symbolism, which...
...into the woods to check promising trees himself. "I use logs that would be almost useless to commercial furniture makers, with their concern for regular grain and thin veneers," he adds. "If a tree has had a joyful life it produces a beautiful grain. Other trees have lived unhappily -- bad weather or a terrible location. We use both kinds...
...induce in them some Kafkaesque mental process by which we are converted, for purposes of contemptuous calculation, into some lower life-form? Do moviegoers suddenly seem to them to be, say, a vast colony of ants mindlessly munching through forests of Roman numerals, unconcerned about the taste, good or bad, of anything placed in our path? (Yum -- Indiana Jones III; slurp -- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; burp -- Ghostbusters...