Word: ellsworth
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Connecticut offered Sherman's compromise a second time and a third. The Madison forces refused to budge. Madison gibed at Connecticut for tax evasion: "Has she paid, for the last two years, any money into the Continental Treasury?" Oliver Ellsworth angrily retorted, "Connecticut had more troops in the field than even the state of Virginia . . . We feel the effects of it even to this day." Pennsylvania's Wilson fretfully asked why the small states persisted in their suspicions of the large ones. Gunning Bedford of Delaware provided a sharp answer: "I do not, gentlemen, trust...
...some off, suggesting that one's taste was . . . well, imperfect. Douglas Cramer, the TV producer who gave a grateful world Dynasty and The Love Boat, has turned his ranch and vineyard at Santa Ynes into an art foundation (even the bottles carry chaste line drawings of vine leaves by Ellsworth Kelly on their white labels; the artist made a special trip to draw Cramer's leaves in situ...
...show, one has been given rather too much. A wearying amount of second-rate work from the '50s and '60s has been included for its imagery alone, and much of it is Kosmic Komix decor. Some artists, like Ellsworth Kelly, come out looking like resolute materialists whose pared-down insistence on the autonomy of formal means suggests no "spiritual" aspect (as defined by the earlier parts of the show) at all. But this is a brave curatorial labor all the same, a stimulating and important move in the general rereading of modern art that is so much a part...
...Bluhm are, as portraiture, thin and perfunctory; for a quick check on what a first-rate American draftsman could do with the human face as a focus of inquisitorial attention, one could have done worse than visit West 57th Street after leaving the Whitney to catch the show of Ellsworth Kelly's portrait drawings at the Blum Helman Gallery. Perhaps only in America, where the cultural role of depictive drawing was so quashed and ghettoized by a quarter-century of "official" abstraction, could Katz be seen as a draftsman of any special quality. One would not wish to begrudge...
...each of the Triad's components. He dived with the Trident submarine Henry M. Jackson off the Bahamas as the vessel made final preparations to join the Pacific Fleet, strapped himself into the cramped confines of a B-52 on a simulated bombing strike out of South Dakota's Ellsworth Air Force Base and inspected a Minuteman training launch capsule, also in South Dakota. Van Voorst's report...