Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holding the letter that got her access to Marat's bathroom. It is an exhilarating picture, with its firm amplitude of shapes and stripes. Leslie thinks of his work in partly ethical terms. "I think," he reflects, "it was Balzac who said that when art begins to decay it is always realism that comes to the rescue. This is why we must fight for the restoration of the realistic painter's rights-why I feel that I have to paint from life, to restore, at least in myself, the power to see things at first hand. There...
...religious connotations; most important, the automobile and the automobile industry no longer call the tune and set the tempo of American life." One major reason for this shift in attitudes, Flink thinks, is young Americans' sweeping indictment of the car for contributing to "environmental pollution, urban sprawl, the decay of the center city, the decimation of our remaining wilderness areas." He did not predict what will take the auto's place as a predominant American force...
That is the last thing he actually wants. His own power has been threatened not by a liberal Democrat who can be casually written off but by a loyal son of the machine-a sign of inner decay. By staying in the race, Hanrahan will boost the chances of the independent candidate for Governor, Dan Walker, a Chicago lawyer and onetime vice president of Montgomery Ward who authored the famed Walker Report on rioting at the 1968 Democratic Convention. If they emerge divided from a bruising primary, the Democrats will not be in the best shape to defeat Nixon...
...Marrow. The degradation of language parallels the decay of power and majesty. One workman, Glendenning (Tom Alkins), is a tongue-knotted baboon who cannot put his feet, let alone his words, where he wants to. With this handful of human rubble -stuttering, stumbling, abject-Storey evokes the race that gave the world the speech of Shakespeare, the King James Bible and Churchill...
...Decay. Up to a point, Bacon's art, in all its hazard and abiding strangeness, grows out of the terms of his life. Born in Ireland in 1909, a descendant of the great Elizabethan Sir Francis Bacon, he spent a childhood whose ambience was decayed status, country eccentricity and the violence of Irish civil war. When Francis was 17, his father caught him trying on his mother's underwear, and banished him from the house. With no special qualifications or ambition, Bacon drifted his way round Europe-to Berlin and afterward to Paris-and worked as an interior...