Word: disequilibriums
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...always been the way his first pictorial impulses survive in the written-over manuscript of his work. His mastery of his own long-considered syntax has never led him to smooth out the quirks. Diebenkorn is a great stylist, and what gives life to style is a certain disequilibrium. These modest drawings clearly signal an interesting turn in his work. Will a series of paintings on the scale and quality of the Ocean Parks eventually come out of them? One would be rash to bet against it. -By Robert Hughes
...they also--particularly the dancers and the bathers--gave him leeway to play fast and loose with neo-classical conservatism. He tested the capacity of elegant design to withstand challenging poses. With the dancers, Degas takes on very difficult ballet postures and flirts wtih disequilibrium. With the bathers--and some of the horses--he plays the voyeur, catching his subjects in ungainly and at times vulgar contortions. Yet throughout his eye for "arabesque" (a term borrowed from dance, meaning "overall pattern of line") prevails, and his statuettes withstand his often perverse challenges. It is as if Degas wanted to tease...
Directors of the International Monetary Fund were shocked. Canada, they grumbled, was not playing by I.M.F. rules. Those rules require each country to maintain a fixed value for its currency, and allow change only when a nation's finances get into "fundamental disequilibrium," a stage that Canada had not quite reached. Still, what was to be gained by Canada's waiting for an acute crisis to develop-as the British, French and Germans have done in the past-before making long-overdue rate changes? Although the I.M.F. rules are designed to promote stability in world finance, they have...
...tend to be regarded as "benefits" to mankind. Especially in societies characterized by a high degree of private enterprise, there are very great rewards to be had from such innovation, and there follows a lively competition to maintain the pace of change. Unavoidably, however, change introduces a measure of disequilibrium into the larger social system: second-, third-, and fourth-order effects take place, and while some of these are also beneficial, and some neutral, others are seriously harmful. As often as not, these harmful effects are experienced by persons who did not necessarily share in the original benefits, and only...
...private talks, Leoni made it clear that the major disequilibrium concerning him was Communist subversion around the hemisphere, and that Venezuela is disturbed by French trade with Cuba. The joint communiqué was limited to bland assurances of mutual esteem and wishes for world peace. French loans for Venezuelan development? There was little talk of that. "They need experts more than money," sniffed one high-ranking Gaullist...