Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would, in certain ways, remain an abstract expressionist at heart, a painter who loved spontaneous gesture and the kind of unforeseen imagery that popped out of it. From the big red hand (of God?) that appears in Eden, 1956, to the shamelessly romantic sky space that hangs behind the lavender blobs of pigment in Sacrifice Decision, 1981, one sees traces of the surrealist ideas that had formed Pollock -- an openness to the kind of unsought private image that was generally barred from color-field painting. Frankenthaler disliked programs and was not a self-conscious avant-gardist...
This openness comes in part from what the catalog of her last big New York museum show -- at the Whitney, 20 years ago -- rather stiffly called the "landscape paradigm." Over the years, it has been landscape (its closeup detail and far extension, its variety of light and color) to which Frankenthaler's images were kin -- if not in descriptive convention, then certainly in general feeling. You know before you read the label that it is the sea, and not an abstract blue surface, that spreads out in Ocean Drive West...
...best is yet to come, and Sherry, who has had Greene's sort-of approval and cooperation, should be in the best position to get it. Of all the big fish still swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, Greene is one of the most elusive. As Sherry told the British press this spring, "He will not give you anything. If you don't ask, you won't get, and if you do ask, you might well...
...gotten a big boulder rolling and we're in motion, but now a lot of what is going to happen will depend on Dean Putnam," Ramsey Professor of Political Economy Richard J. Zeckhauser says...
...would prefer that ethics pervade the curriculum rather than be taught in one class," Zeckhauser says. "People who are big supporters of the ethics course say that we will get ethics to eventually do just that, but I don't think that will be true...