Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson team got down early but broke at 1-3 after making the switch to the two-back formation...
...first down at the Harvard 26-yard line,junior quarterback Rich Linden dropped back topass. Senior linebacker Ernest Dean broke throughthe Harvard line and laid his shoulder on Linden,who had raised his right arm and was ready topass. The ball popped out of Linden's hand, thereferees ruled the play a fumble rather than anincomplete pass and Brown defensive tackle FryWernick pounced on the ball at the Harvard 16-yardline...
...possesses a rare skill at scandal management. He is a lawyer with a fine ear for how things will play politically, which gives him an entree with the two main factions (the legal team and the spinners) that have riven the White House since the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. The lawyer in him can gather the facts; the political hand knows how to spin them...
Rather, Pollock became an exemplar of risk and openness. It wasn't just that, as de Kooning said, he "broke the ice" and forced American art onto an international stage, where it had never had a place before. It was that the freedom implied in his work challenged and provoked other artists to claim an equal freedom in theirs--not only in painting but also in sculpture, performance art, dance and music...
Such was Pollock's problem. The picture in which he broke free from it--and, it now seems, took American art into a larger freedom with him--was the 20-ft.-wide mural he did for Peggy Guggenheim. He painted it in one outpouring rush, in a day and a night. Mural isn't by any means an abstract painting. It retains the essence of subject matter shared by most "classical" murals, from Giotto to Matisse--the projection of human figures on a large plane surface. But the movement isn't suave. The figures are arabesques, coiling, jammed together, recognizable...