Word: coulds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rockwell could. He knew how a few brushstrokes can mimic wet hair, effulgent sunlight, gunmetal, crinoline, catsup, cardboard, painted brick and polished linoleum. And he got those effects without losing sight of the muddy pleasure of pigment itself, a fundamental notion of modern painting. In a few inches of sailcloth or the slip worn by his Girl at Mirror, he could put white paint through as many adventures as Robert Ryman does in his snow-flurry abstractions. As for his pieties, they turn out sometimes to be the same ones fundamental to civil society. By nothing less than an actual...
...many of his pictures really are the insipid jokes and consoling fictions they were always said to be. The fact that sentimentality in painting has a pedigree reaching back to Rubens doesn't make Rockwell's puppy dogs any more digestible now. There are parts of this show that could make you hate Santa Claus...
...turned out, in his own politics Rockwell was a liberal, which could be guessed from the understated plea for tolerance that so many of his pictures make. In the 1960s, when he left the Post for Look magazine, he turned to producing plainer public statements like The Problem We All Live With, a bare rectangle in which a black girl is chaperoned by federal Marshals as she tries to integrate a Southern school. Public rhetoric was never Rockwell's strength. But he brings such a hard-lit, neoclassical calm to this moment that the remnants of a tomato smashed against...
...some cases, insurance will pick up the tab, and Remicade, at least, qualifies for Medicare reimbursement. But coverage probably won't be universal. Some firms could make doctors prescribe cheaper, though more problematic, alternatives. For some patients, the pain of arthritis will be compounded by the pain of knowing there's help just beyond their reach...
...career in the U.S. Senate, is still often known as Teddy, the diminutive attached to him as the youngest brother in his powerful family. The nickname persists because he was blessed and cursed by the gift of years that let him lead a full and well-publicized life that could only diminish him against the gargantuan mythology grown up around his murdered brothers John and Robert...