Word: barnett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lesson. It makes one remember how completely the city and the museum (closed, protective spaces, controlled environment) have permeated formal American sculpture and directed its "look." The art demands an artificial space, cold or meditative, in which nothing competes with the object. An extreme example is the work of Barnett Newman, the late dean of minimal art. Several of his austere steel pillars are dotted on the rolling, shaven greensward of one of Newport's more lavish mansions, The Elms. Isolated in their white museum cubicle and garnished with the rhetoric of sublimity, all Newman's sculptures look...
...CORRELLI BARNETT, British military historian: Greatness has nothing to do with morality. A leader gets people to follow him. Napoleon led the French to catastrophe, but they followed him almost to the end. Marlborough and Wellington had greatness. And Hitler, unfortunately. Al Capone was a leader in a primitive environment...
...accident. General Manager Eddie Donovan is one of the shrewdest traders and drafters in pro basketball. Before corning to Buffalo. Donovan built the Knicks into a championship team by drafting the likes of Bill Bradley, Walt Frazier and Willis Reed, and trading for Dave De Busschere and Dick Barnett. In Buffalo. Donovan found in Owner Paul Snyder a man who was eager to underwrite similar maneuvering with a philosophy that "good players deserve high salaries...
...sensitive to charges of cronyism, the President reluctantly named Ramsey Clark instead. By conservative Texas standards, in fact, Jaworski has often been a maverick. He defended a liberal school-board member who was under furious attack from conservatives, and he was chosen to prosecute former Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett for criminal contempt for trying to block desegregation...
...sound like Sesame Street or something, but the line poses a very real threat to the opposition defense, as it has accounted for over half the total goal production of coach Braden Houston's three lines. Cyr is the leading goal scorer with 17 and 6 assists, while Barnett has tallied 13 times with 24 assists and Mirabelli has 9 goals, 20 assists...