Word: californianism
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Richmond, a math whiz, happily noted that she has "known since eighth grade" that she wanted to attend Harvard, but Toulmin--an avid bellringer--simply said that she liked Cambridge better than New Haven, which she described as a "pit," and Brown, which she felt was "too Californian...
...technical aspects of the production are also uniformly excellent. Nancy Thun's costumes--particularly Kimmer's white leisure suit and Elton John-style glasses--contribute to the southern Californian atmosphere without smothering the play in stereotypes. The music between scenes provides some fine, although not classic, examples of old-style, sloppy, thumping, twanging country-western blues...
...called a default on the Polish loans. But he cannot be sure that his advantage will hold. While Reagan has been listening to Haig on policy, the Secretary of State never will have the kind of intimacy with the President enjoyed by Weinberger, an amiable, laid-back Californian who has been close to Reagan since he drew up budgets for the Governor of the Golden State in the 1960s...
...America. In California, for the past 25 years, there has been a strong tradition of clay sculpture. In New York, by contrast, any sort of earthenware was generally felt to be inferior as sculptural material, compared with bronze, steel, stone or wood. By showing the work of six leading Californian clay sculptors. Curators Richard Marshall and Suzanne Foley hope to show once and for all that clay can take on an expressive power beyond the limits of "mere" craft...
...father of Californian ceramic sculpture, in the 1950s, was Peter Voulkos, now 57; a group of his pieces from those years begins the show. They record his decision-and it cannot have been an easy one 25 years ago-to apply the latent violence of abstract expressionist paint handling to the solid medium of clay: to twist, punch and slash the continuous form one expects of a pot's surface, opening it up to create the visible inner spaces that belong to sculpture. Compared with the best abstract expressionist Voulkos' sculpture (David Smith's, say), somewhat clumsy...