Word: commentating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classical" mode, which he would revert to for decades to come, can also be seen as a gesture of independence. After his collaboration with Braque ended with his comment that "Braque is my wife"--words that were as disparaging to women as to Braque--Picasso remained a loner for the rest of his career. But a loner with a court and maitresses en titre. He didn't even form a friendship with Matisse until both artists were old. His close relationships tended to be with poets and writers...
...then abandoned it. Subsumed it, really, inside the raucous, unyielding, cataclysmic rock 'n' roll that he let loose on an audience that didn't like to be reminded how hidebound it was. What had been music of comment and protest became songs of unprecedented personal testament, delivered with a literal and savage electricity...
...critics were never kind to Glimp. Edmund Wilson dismissed him with the scathing comment "I've read his operas, but I refuse to listen to his paintings." George Bernard Shaw admired Glimp for "the authentic ugliness he could carry from one genre to another." Such remarks never bothered him. "I don't create for the critics," Glimp said with his usual brutal whimsy. "I do it for a tiny cult of neurotic admirers who worship me obsessively and bring me offerings of fruit and incense...
...addition to the Houghton and the TerrieFried Bloom endowments, Amy Smith Berylson '75endowed a fund in her name during the last term.While Berylson declined to comment on the size ofthe endowment, Avery says the gift will fund anannual lecture featuring women professionals in avariety of fields...
...spokesman for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty organization in Vienna would not comment on whether the agency was aware of reports alleging that some of Pakistan's devices had failed. "We are still awaiting further information and analyzing the data we have already received," Carlos Hernandez of the CTBT told TIME. "Our function is to simply document when and where nuclear test explosions occur, and to measure their size." Pakistan has refused to comment on questions concerning unexploded devices. But you might want to think twice about taking a job as a janitor at Pakistan's Chagai nuclear test site...