Word: byron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...richness of Shelley's text, and its uncanny ability to inspire horror. The novel is surprisingly unassuming, the first work of a 19 year-old writer who was to have few other lasting successes. But it is powerfully midwifed by the godfathers of the Romantic movement, Lord Byron and Percy Blythe Shelley, and Mary Shelley's own traumatic family experiences. The frustrations of her position--her selfimposed exile with the radical, and still-married, Shelley, her confinement in the home and her failed pregnancies--are expressed in the passion with which she narrates the creation, birth and development...
...extreme are easily accessible depictions of black life, such as printmaker Varnette Honeywood's realistic portrayals of African women, which the Huxtables of TV's Cosby hung on their walls. At the other extreme are the puckish conceptual works of such younger figures as Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim and of David Hammons, their artistic godfather. Hammons, 51, paints or uses found objects to create pieces that raise unsettling questions about the significance of race. For example, after his 16-ft. by 14-ft. portrait of a blond, blue-eyed Jesse Jackson titled How Ya Like Me Now? was installed...
...contrast, Breyer looked more and more attractive. His chief problem, the nanny factor, was the least troublesome. When he was under consideration for Byron White's seat last year, Breyer had been snagged for unpaid Social Security taxes for a cleaning lady. He subsequently paid the taxes, only to have the IRS later determine that he had not in fact owed the money; the IRS refunded...
Furthermore, Jett was known for his peculiar fascination with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, the poetry of Lord Byron, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche...
...Feng, who came to the U.S. from China in 1986, showed an incomplete collection: no coats, few casual outfits. But she looks to be a virtuoso with materials. From cut velvet to georgette, she made everything seem like gossamer and draped it skillfully on the body. Byron Lars, who is just 29, put on the most dazzling show of all three cities, full of swagger and unabashed theatrics, with the most sophisticated music -- ranging from bongo drums to Delibes -- since the early days of Lacroix. Such a bravura presentation could have overwhelmed the clothes, but fortunately they were just...