Word: drip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cobalt Night, 1962, or Charred Landscape, 1960, raise echoes of romantic "spectaculars," from Tintoretto to Oskar Kokoschka. They take a field of subject matter that Pollock was generally thought to have sealed off as his own-atmospheric space, roiled with stress and strain-and return it from the impromptu drip (which no one after Pollock could manage anyway) to the more deliberate action of the brush. When she resorted to dream imagery, as in the commanding, ropily drawn vortex of eyes in Night Watch, 1960, Krasner did not let her private demons get the better of her formal instinct...
Finally, it was Reuben's turn. He had been waiting very patiently for quite a long while. "Can I have some vanilla, too, please?" But when Reuben received his cone, the ice cream immediately began to drip profusely all over his fingers and hands...
...open for the 19-year-old will not be the Hamlet that student reads at age 50. The play will have changed because the reader's experience will have recast it-the noble, tormented boy of one's youth reappearing in middle age as something of a drip...
Newhart, featuring Bob, that drip-dry palladin of the beleaguered middle class, running an inn in Vermont with his wife (Mary Frann), could be in its sixth year instead of its sixth episode. Richard Crenna and Patty Duke Astin show up on It Takes Two (ABC, Thursdays, 9:30-10 p.m. E.S.T.) fighting the kind of lightly amusing skirmishes in the battle of the sexes, married division, on which the dust should long since have settled. A rich kid (Ricky Schroder) gives his dippy dad (Joel Higgins) lessons in modern maturity on Silver Spoons (NBC, Saturdays...
...diner some guy is loudly blabbing about the dog's infected ear, the faucet drip and how he was attacked by giant broccoli in a dream. These details can loosen screws. The only reaction: order coffee to go. No one should suffer the minutiae of another person's life. Unless that person happens to be Andy Rooney. In that case order eggs and sausage, sit back and laugh...