Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the purchase prices are steep, the saving on food, lodging and layovers can be attractive, particularly for a cost-conscious couple on the road ten months of the year. A few maintain no on-the-ground house at all and stay with relatives during their short periods of downtime. Bill and Linda Yancey of Chula Vista, Calif., figure they will soon pay for their $21,000 sleeper by sharing driving time. "It takes two to keep it going," says Bill, who adds that "it's nice to have someone in this with you as a partner...
...China are becoming increasingly trendy items, there reappears on the literary horizon an important and previously "lost" work whose intellectual voyage takes one back to the origins of the West's Oriental fascination. Raymond Schwab's book is a major critical undertaking whose ambitious task is reinterpreting a self-conscious moment crucial in the development of contemporary western civilization and thought. Quoting Friedrich Schlegel's quest, "we must seek the Supreme Romanticism in the Orient," Schwab's original hypothesis attempts, with compelling evidence, to trace 19th century Europe's Romantic longings to the Oriental influence Romanticism's obsession with originality...
Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) lives in New Jersey. Her husband sells hot tubs and makes a fool of himself on his TV commercials. Her diet-conscious friends drink rum and Tab. A romantic interlude for her consists of watching Rebecca on the Late Show. This is no life for someone who keeps a diary and looks like a new-minted movie star. No wonder she spends a lot of time leafing longingly through the personals column of a New York City tabloid, in particular mooning over a free-floating couple, Susan and Jim, who arrange their assignations, all over the country...
Perhaps one should take Rousseau more on his own terms. The Paris modernists --Jarry, Apollinaire, Picasso, Delaunay, Brancusi--hailed his work because of its fierce, astringent poetry, but also because it seemed to have predicted their own conscious concerns: the interest in popular art like the prints known as images d'Epinal, the invented exoticism, the mode of composition in flat planes, but above all the ideal of the untutored eye unobstructed by academic culture, registering the world with the clarity, as the cliche used to run, "of a child or a savage." Rousseau's innocence might have been invented...
...Rousseau was very conscious of style, and loved referring to other art. "I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of stubborn labor," he wrote to a critic shortly before his death. He wanted his work to be a homemade replica of the values enshrined in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as manifested in the big French Salon painters: Jean-Leon Gerome, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Felix-Auguste Clement. He loved their important subjects, their grasp of the colonial exotic, their professionalism and high finish. So when artists 40 years his junior like Picasso...