Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charge of the casinos. The order came from Frank Balistrieri, 67, a Milwaukee crime boss who had helped Glick get the Teamsters loan. (Balistrieri pleaded guilty after the trial began. So did DeLuna, 58.) Glick complied, but when he later wanted to fire Rosenthal, he was given a blunt warning. Glick testified that Rosenthal said to him, "I was told not to tolerate any nonsense from you because you are not my boss. If you don't do what you're told, you will never leave this corporation alive...
...centers on the scenes in which the mother tries to explain her life to a daughter who has always been sheltered from it, away at school. It brilliantly balances two themes: Warren's social-reformist contention that she was forced onto the streets by lack of alternatives; and her blunt admission that she never felt any shame or yearning for "respectable" work...
...welfare of ordinary Jews. In Egypt, he was the religious and social head of his community. The newly published Crisis and Leadership: Epistles of Maimonides, by Abraham Halkin and David Hartman (Jewish Publication Society; $15.95), portrays an international leader of his faith who was courageous and compassionate, though sometimes blunt...
...other hand, some painters emerge with a strength rarely acknowledged in England or America. Lovis Corinth's Ecce Homo, 1925, was painted in the last year of his life, as he was fighting semiparalysis from a stroke; yet the blunt, stabbing paint marks and the drawing that break from high academic certitude into the quavers of a loaded brush--not to mention the conception of Christ's humiliation before the Jews in contemporary dress, with a German officer as Roman centurion--are grittily eloquent...
...this point, the show plunges off into the badlands of promotion. It contains things one is glad to see--the antic, sardonic imagination of Sigmar Polke, for instance, which has been reprocessed by squads of younger artists from David Salle to Jiri Dokoupil; or the blunt, strong images of Eugen Schonebeck, who abruptly gave up painting at the age of 30, in 1966. There is also a powerful group of sculptures by Beuys. But the artists who get the most play are those industrial-scale bores of the international art market, Baselitz, with his upside-down figures, and A.R. Penck...