Word: balms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artist's sudden maturation is balm to see: 20 years of work, elusive recognition-then a burst of paintings of exceptional originality and depth. It does not often happen that way, but in the past year it has to a soft-spoken California painter named Joseph Raffael, 40. His series of five Water Paintings-large studies of light and reflection on fragments of river, without horizon or air or any of the normal appurtenances of landscape painting-goes on view this week at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in lower Manhattan...
Small towns and the 1950s had this in common: many people wanted to get out of both. Then, at a safe distance of miles and years, a certain nostalgia began inching its way into memory like a balm. In recent years several entertainments have distilled that nostalgia-The Last Picture Show, for example, and the Broadway musical Grease. But none have had the vigor and precision of American Graffiti. This superb and singular film catches not only the charm and tribal energy of the teen-age 1950s but also the listlessness and the resignation that underscored it all like...
SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS. Alone, heart-hungry, frightened, a group of strangers in a bar receive the balm of compassion which is always implicit in a play by Tennessee Williams...
...this last clause was soothing to Marlborough (whose client for the Rousseau, Italian Industrialist Gianni Agnelli, instantly cancelled the deal when the story broke), it was balm to Hoving, who derides the A.D.A. statement as "an absurd document-perfectly specious and contradictory." The Rousseau, he adds, "was of no importance to us" (although the Met owns only one other). This is not a view shared by most art experts or by Marlborough's senior partner, Frank Lloyd, who says, "In my opinion, it's a masterwork." Hoving defends the disputed sale in terms of the need to trim...
...listen" to it. Walter (Switched-On Bach) Carlos here presents four tone poems-spring, summer, fall, winter-that give a good approximation of what a year's hike might be like on the Appalachian Trail. Possible uses: mellifluous Muzak for a flower shop or Japanese tearoom, or dozy balm for the pastoral-minded insomniac trapped in the big city...