Word: bowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could emerge, Ikelike, untainted by the usual rough-and-tumble. Still, the year also had much that was new: Toy Story and Arcadia, Smashing Pumpkins and smashing TV courtroom drama (some of it real life). All that and some nifty Nikes too. So step up, 1995, and take a bow...
...site of an awful showdown. The powerful elderly and nursing-home lobbies will be fighting for Medicaid expansions to serve seniors. The only pot of money big enough to raid will be education, a state's biggest expense, which averages 30% of state spending. If state legislatures bow to pressure and steal from the classroom, communities will have to raise property taxes to protect their local schools...
DIED. CHARLES GORDONE, 70, playwright; of cancer; in College Station, Texas. Gordone became the first African-American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize with the 1969 Broadway bow of No Place to Be Somebody. A portrait of schemers, dreamers and losers in a grungy Greenwich Village bar, it owed as much to the saloon drama of O'Neill and Saroyan as it did to the black theater renaissance of the sixties...
...every metal juncture on these pieces--even in the monumentally minimalistic "5 1/2" (1956). Stung by several critics' refusal to consider pieces created by industrial welding as art, Smith persistently defended his technique. The fancifully chaotic composition of "Bird" (1957) further evokes the spirit of an artist unwilling to bow to convention...
Smith's work is at its best with the 1960 "Doorway on Wheels." Another assemblage of found and manufactured elements arranged in a strikingly two-dimensional form, this piece recalls Louise Nevelson's monumental works. The work's visual center is not the titled egress, but rather the bow of diamond-forms and supports that it frames...