Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catalogue is stuffed with this kind of rant and salted with fulminations against the demons of the "corrupt" art world that make the Ayatullah's views on the Shah seem, by comparison, mere tickling. Nevertheless, Still's notes on the history of abstract expressionism, which sharply contradict some idées reçues of the official version, are largely borne out by the evidence of his paintings. We see, for instance, how Barnett Newman's much praised early work, with its vertical "zip" down the canvas, was no more than a derivative rehearsal of certain canvases...
...much simpler, grander and more declarative kind of structure: opaque, ragged planes of color rearing up the surface, emphatic in their brush-work-none of the characteristic cubist tonal flicker-and engulfing in their sheer size. If cubism was the art of hypothesis, Still would contradict it with an art of crushing visual fact. In doing so he hoped to make a clean leap out of modernist history into images "not proven by a continuum," as he wrote to a friend in 1950: "I am myself-not just the sum of my ancestors, and I know myself best...
HORNER'S statement and the restrictive policy contradict Radcliffe's original reasons for building the gym. Radcliffe billed the gym as a college facility, not as a House facility. Under the 1971 Agreement the lines of sex were dropped in house considerations. However, Radcliffe now feels it should draw new lines according to Radcliffe's property rights. Radcliffe should not limit its good deeds to the Quad residents. With the limited access policy, the college has hidden its most ambitious and welcomed project to date...
...Chapin took me to a large living room and told me that the President-elect would be with me soon. I did not know then that Nixon was painfully shy. Meeting new people filled him with vague dread, especially if they were in a position to rebuff or contradict him. As was his habit before such appointments, Nixon was probably in an adjoining room settling his nerves and reviewing his remarks, no doubt jotted down on a yellow tablet that he never displayed to his visitors...
...Their past prescriptions ?tax tinkering and Government deficit spending to prop up demand, wage and price guidelines to hold down inflation?have been as helpful as snake oil. "Things just do not work now as they used to," says former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, and who can contradict him? The U.S. economy, bloated and immobilized, has been turned topsy-turvy...