Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes as a revelation. Augusto Giacometti seems to be one of the claimants to the honor of having produced the first deliberately abstract works of art. His wavy-edged pastel, Abstraction After a Stained-Glass Window in the Cluny Museum, dates from 1900, fully a decade before the mutual creation of abstract art by Larionov, Kupka, Kandinsky and Arthur Dove. Amiet's work, though less aggressively avantgarde, is also of more than parochial quality. After his early apprenticeship with Gauguin's disciples in the Pont-Aven group, he never lost his interest in broad, ripe patternings of color...
Many diplomats worry that Kissinger is using the European nations as pawns in what French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert calls the U.S. "adversary-partnership" relationship with the Soviet Union. Indeed, some Europeans are now convinced that the latest diplomatic crisis was deliberately staged by Kissinger to forestall the creation of a potential rival to the U.S.-U.S.S.R. condominium-namely a united Europe...
...years after 1984 Marx once wrote that all schemes of the future must be reactionary, since they are based on conceptions of the past. But it would be fairer to call Zardoz conservative. It is an extrapolation of the present. A group of scientists have achieved their ideal: the creation of an isolated world of enlightened immortals. This utopia, called a vortex, is encased like a gem within a matrix peopled by "brutals." The brutals are consigned to mortality, a mortality heightened by exterminators who massacre the brutals to prevent overpopulation. The immortals of the vortex are oblivious to these...
...Intrusion. In the show are illuminated manuscripts from the 8th century to about 1510. A German chronicle about events from the creation of the world to the death of Charlemagne includes an illustration of a giant Nimrod directing the construction of the Tower of Babel. Even in the compass of a page, Nimrod stands huge and commanding beside the rising tower. In the magnificent Book of Hours painted for Catherine of Cleves about 1440, there is a wildly imaginative image of the Mouth of Hell-three gaping bestial jaws flanked by towers, with sinners and demons scrambling about...
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the creation. Right before your eyes, Paramount Pictures will attempt, using a rare blend of ancient skills and modern moxie, to manufacture a blockbuster hit. The blockbuster has, for the last dozen years or so, been cherished as the Miracle Aid cure for an ailing film industry and, for the moment at least, Paramount is rapidly becoming known as blockbuster-broker No. 1. In the way that one picture often constitutes a Hollywood trend, two can make a reputation, and Paramount's current supremacy is based on a pair of recent box office-boggling...