Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deepest relationships, then, were always with himself, and with the luminous sounds he entertained in his head. In his determination to control everything around him, he scripted, down to the last pause, his "off-the- cuff" public interviews and devoted himself to a technology that would allow him, he thought, to create perfect pieces of music simply by splicing together flawless passages. His ambition, he once said, was "to try my hand at being a prisoner." He achieved that goal, perhaps, by locking himself more and more inside the echo chamber of his own mind, becoming, in the process...
...below the surface of the chilly Norwegian Sea, perhaps as deep as 2,000 ft., the submarine was running quietly and swiftly. With its tough titanium hull and liquid-metal-cooled nuclear reactors, the 361-ft. Mike-class vessel was one of the deepest-diving and fastest-running attack subs in Moscow's fleet. Then, late one morning last week, a submariner's worst nightmare became reality: fire broke out. The sub managed to reach the surface about 320 miles off the northern coast of Norway. As it wallowed, many of the 95 crew members rushed to life rafts...
...honesty, Bernstein upholds the honor of his parents. They were never subversives, never disloyal to their country, he says. His sensitivity to Alfred and Sylvia (both still living) means that he never quite penetrates the deepest questions: Exactly why did people like them join the Communist Party? Just what did they do at their cell meetings? Was there in fact some danger in having people working for the Government whose loyalty was also to the Communist Party? And, on a more personal level, does he feel he has betrayed the father he clearly loves very deeply...
...voice-overs of our mind. Few would suggest that Chandler is a more significant literary figure than Eliot. But quality and influence are mysteriously related, and Chandler has inspired more poses and more parodies, perhaps, than any other American writer of the century save Hemingway. Eliot merely articulated the deepest spiritual and emotional issues of the times; Chandler put them on the sidewalk...
JASPER JOHNS: WORK SINCE 1974, Philadelphia Museum of Art. The show that won the grand prize at last summer's Venice Biennale and cemented Johns' status as America's deepest living painter. Through...