Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muybridge's wrestlers become Bacon's signs for sexual battle. But they shed their documentary purpose, and in doing so open the way to another discourse of figures. When impelled by strong emotion -- as in the Triptych May-June 1973, which commemorates the suicide of his friend George Dyer in a Paris hotel two years before -- the "shocking" images in Bacon are raised to the order of grand lamentation: they take one back to the classical past, but to its sacrifices, not its marbles...
...made of his reliance on chance, but it seems to have affected his life (he is an inveterate gambler, an addict of the green baize) more than his art. One could say the ejaculatory blurt of white paint in a painting like Two Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, 1968, is chancy, but that kind of chance is easily manipulated with practice, and it rhymes suspiciously well with other curves in the painting (like the back of the chair in the picture within a picture to the left). The truth is that the Bacon one sees this time...
...same grace and punch he gave the paper's Washington bureau, and Washington Reporters Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie are highly respected. Baseball Writer Peter Gammons may be that sport's most influential daily chronicler. Among other assets: Columnist Ellen Goodman, Humorist Diane White, Music Critic Richard Dyer and Editorial Writer Kirk Scharfenberg...
Last week, by a unanimous senate vote, Mississippi became the final state to ratify the 19th Amendment. The action came a mere 64 years after it became the law of the land. When State Senator Howard Dyer called the resolution up for a vote, he rivaled the condescending chivalry of Bilbo. The measure, drawled Dyer, was drafted by "some lady legislators who take great pride in the fact that they are authors...
...Dyer, who finished who the day with 10 stops, made several doing saves and thwarted other Crimson shots to keep Harvard scoreless in the second half...