Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longstanding friend, exegete and collector, Thomas Hess. "It was in such storms," writes Hess, presumably referring to the squidgy, roiled surface of the paintings, "that life first was created, and creativity -the miracle of genesis-is the ultimate concern in de Kooning's difficult, elusive, spontaneous art." The drift of Hess's passage seems to be that de Kooning, at 73, is much more than a tempest: he is either God or, at the very least, a primal cloud of cosmic gas. There have not been tropes like this since the old days at Art News...
...lack of adequate athletic and dining facilities has caused a drift of sophomores from the Quad to the River, Michael Jimenez, assistant senior tutor of North House, said yesterday...
...make matters worse, I spent two hours digging out my Royal portable from a snow drift in my living room yesterday, then risked a $500 fine by driving pell-mell to South Station to catch the 6 o'clock Amtrak...
...first impulse slid under a drift. "Sure," I said, my second impulse ski-jumping into the forefront, "I'll write a column about snow...
...hope you've caught my drift...