Word: blur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other painters, however, had no illusions about his merits. Mark Rothko treated him as a master-appropriately, since Rothko's glowing, blur-edged rectangles, now so prized as icons of American romanticism, were largely derived from Avery's landscapes. Avery's influence on American abstract painting in the '50s and '60s, not only as a stylist but as a moral example of commitment and aesthetic ambition, was much greater than has usually been supposed. His way of rilling a canvas with broad fields of color "tuned" by dispersed accumulations of detail (a cluster of rocks...
...among the faculty and students who were at the University during the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis recall the Soviets' singling out Harvard in official propaganda. Most recollect a campus just as confused and frightened as the rest of the country by the blur of cryptic news reports: U.S. blockade, 80 million potential American victims, rockets in Turkey, the threat to Berlin...
hill, as the wayfarer battles a curve and then a second, sharper right turn, two other obligatory props of a New England town blur past: the village store and the post office. Bryant Pond would be a dot on the map, located by reference to nearby towns with such names as Norway, Paris and Mexico, if it were not for one curious fact: this little way station happens to be the home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling...
...last spring was a blur of sleeplessness and sharp-edged tension...
...pair whiz around in surrealistic motor cars and light beams, the storyline and even the character distinctions blur. What emerges are two not-so-subtle themes. First, the computer system is an allegory for repressive government. MCP is the dictator: Hitler, Franco, Amin, Big Brother all rolled into one. Flynn and Tron are the daring young revolutionaries who give their dejected compatriots hope. They fight not, as we were originally led to belive, so that Flynn can make big bucks, but "to make this system free again." Political moderates will be relieved to observe that Flynn does not succeed until...