Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counting, there are about eight contenders now, give or take a reluctant Senator or two. Although interviewed by Dukakis and high on his wish list, Senators Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Sam Nunn of Georgia have taken themselves out of the running. While Democrats seem to be content to take Nunn at his word, visions of a Bradley draft now excite Democrats almost as much as a Mario scenario did several months ago, though some think two Northeasterners on the ticket could be a fatal liability. Jesse Jackson is nominally on the list, largely because he has demanded...
SORCERESS is a historical allegory of intense emotional power and significant social content. Shot in the lush, but impoverished setting of a small French village during the Crusades, the film presents political conflicts--between Church, individual, peasant and nobleman--in the context of personal complexities...
Even so, for years most Americans were content to imagine the Latin world as a tropical paradise or a giant border town, a torrid zone just across the line of sexual decorum, that most heavily policed boundary in the American psyche. Though that image is being discarded, it is not going without a fight. In a Miami department store not long ago, the Cuban-born fashion designer Adolfo, a favorite of Nancy Reagan's, was pained to overhear two women express surprise that he was the creator of a collection that was elegant and simple. "Obviously," he laments, "they just...
...found in abstract expressionism and then in color-field painting -- both high styles and, in theory at least, sociologically neutral. Thus, writes Curator Beardsley, there appeared an "unwritten presumption that the nearer an artist aspires to the level of high art, the more leached out will become the ethnic content of the work." Hence the peculiarly airless and circular way in which New York City defined itself from about 1965 on as the cultural caput mundi, pulling all talent into its gravitational field of orthodoxy, refusing to accord "seriousness" to provincials and barbarians...
...that they were not particularly political. Coles' forum invites him to be political, or at least to comment on particular questions of public policy. But there are thinkers aplenty willing to bear that burden, and Coles would do better to leave that work for them, as he generally seems content...