Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make the picture a little clearer, Fish's mortality was confirmed over the last two weeks as his squash team lost for the first time at Princeton and his tennis squad dropped several matches in a national tournament in Wisconsin...
...aesthetic embodied in "Marimba," a 1976 work set to Steve Reich's "Music for Mallet, Instruments, Voices and Organ," is that of repetitive imagery. The intensity of repetition leads to clearer seeing, deeper insight; it's a curiously challenging boredom. The unfamiliar is so predictable as to become unexpected. Composer Steve Reich articulates this aesthetic in an essay defining music as a "gradual process." He writes, "I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music," a perfect description of "Marimba," a dance about form revealing itself...
...peace document. All efforts for peace, including the Geneva Conference, are taking place within the framework of the U.N. and under the aegis of the two superpowers. Our concern is to achieve peace, and the document to be signed should be a peace document. To make it clearer: we are either in a state of war or in a state of peace...
...Verrocchio's Colleoni or Donatello's Gattamelata. Every cut of the chisel seems to possess the final, unlabored Tightness of a brush stroke by a master of sumi-e (ink painting). There is probably not a sculpture on view in America this week that gives a clearer impression of the mystery of great portraiture: how realism, a recognizable type and shape, can be conveyed through complete stylization. Like a Giacometti, the figure of Muhon Kakushin is both there and not there: close to the eye, but folded about by its own distances...
...turnabout from last season's patchwork offense should come from a clearer understanding of the part each player is expected to play. "I think we know what our roles are going to be this year," says Irion. "We're more together. I don't know if that wins games, but it certainly helps...