Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world reputation with a sequence of essentially abstract canvases that he christened the "Ocean Park" series, after the section of Santa Monica where he now lives. Yet there was nothing veering or arbitrary about the changes in his approach. Diebenkorn has always been a man of tenacity, deeply conscious of the tradition he works in and the homages to other art that it entails, and he does nothing lightly. When his work shifts, the shift means something. One sees this happening in the current show of Diebenkorn's work in progress, a group of 50 drawings, mostly in gouache...
...find his niche at Harvard: publications. Although dropped--along with Lippmann--from the socially conscious Crimson, Reed, with much writing and publishing experience, found little difficulty gaining staff positions on the Harvard Monthly and The Lampoon. Both served as an outlet for quick imagination and facile wit. The writing was fun, but rarely serious. Too much was written seriously, without revision or even serious editing. Yet, largely for his contributions to these publications, Reed's name became a familiar one to the undergraduate community. Achieving the position of Ibis on the Lampoon, Jack could boast to his mother in Portland...
...audience as well. And there's a lot to escape in Pennies from Heaven. For Arthur and Eileen, sexual exploitation, grim poverty, murder and rape are only a few things to run away from. For the audience, there's always the unappetizing screenplay and Ross's self-conscious and sometimes misguided direction...
...They put a shirt over my head, and they hit me with something hard. I felt the men coming over to lift off the shirt. But I was still conscious. I heard the boatmaster order another man to cut my throat. (Here Loc interjects that he was powerless to help. Pham offers no consolation...
...moment they took the shirt off my head, they saw that I was conscious, and that tears were on my face. I did not know what they were thinking. Then someone said: 'Pham, do you want to live?' And I said: 'Yes, of course I want to live.' So they untied me and took me into the cabin...