Word: cluster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Epic Gesture. What the paintings of Marie-Thérése are to pleasure, the portraits of Dora Maar that cluster round Guernica and continue through World War II are to pain. One cannot look at the terrifying, dislocated features of Weeping Woman, 1937 (42), or Picasso's cat tearing up a live bird (46), without recognizing them as indictments of war. The climax of Picasso's concern was of course Guernica, 1937. This enormous canvas was Picasso's counterpart to Goya's Third of May and Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People...
...visual environment around us," explains Margolies. "Our thing in museums is an exercise in visual perception-letting you look at the same thing you have seen before but in a different way so you can think about yourself and how you perceive it." Children and museum guards tend to cluster in the corners to watch the on-the-air programming. Adults are variously befuddled, bemused or transfixed into playing trivia identification games ("Dammit, who was Jackie Gleason's wife in the original Honey-mooners?"). Some visitors consider the show out of place in a museum, but most have...
...province of the novel, not the cinema, and even so mature a film falters before its destination. But never has an English-language film glistened with so many social nuances. In part, the credit is due to Director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy); he has also contributed a cluster of stylistic debits. The essential triumph of Sunday Bloody Sunday belongs to Scenarist Penelope Gilliatt, whose plot alone challenges the customary moral institutions...
...this cluster of contradictions came the 'final' solution: all stations paid AT & T a license fee for use of "telegraphic" wires. AT & T sold its stations, receiving the right to manufacture radio equipment on a limited basis, while RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse formed the NBC radio system, which operated two networks and dominated its field for years. By these actions, antitrust laws were circumvented; networks being new entities altogether, the danger of eventual broadcast monopoly was ignored...
...consistent surplus until last April. Even now, the U.S. holds a $1.8 billion annual surplus in trade with the Common Market. Japan, however, ships more to the U.S. than it buys-$5.9 billion v. $4.7 billion. The overall American balance of payments has long been unfavorable for a cluster of reasons, many of them not strictly tied to trade: the outpouring of foreign aid and investment, the cost of keeping a large military force overseas, and the spending by the army of U.S. tourists abroad...