Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...era of striving for ultimate solutions, painters are continually testing the outermost bounds of perception. Artists from Russian Suprematist Kasimir Malevitch to Jasper Johns have turned out white-on-white paintings; Ad Reinhardt experimented with black on black. Latest and farthest-out researcher is Cali fornia's Robert Irwin, 39, who has developed pictures composed of light on light. Each painting consists of a white aluminum disk, sprayed at the edges with a subtle blush of blue, pink or grey. Mounted 15 or 20 inches from the wall, the disks are lit by four small spotlights, which cast phantasmal...
...tourists, to be sure, will find the pleasures of Mexico mixed. To enjoy the very foreignness that gives the visitors the exhilarating sense of being far away while still close to home, it is also necessary to come to terms with the special Mexican ambiente. The mañana era may be over, but it has been succeeded by hay tiempo ("there's time"). Some hotels have clocks with no hands, apparently to prove that time does not count. Sometimes hay tiempo also means late planes, canceled tours and misplaced hotel reservations. "We're trying as hard...
Often, he reveals himself as an archconservative who dislikes mass man and the whole modern era with its shoddy workmanship-one can almost see him in an English county seat decrying the servant problem and denouncing Labour amid outraged pipe smoke. He accurately describes himself as neo-Victorian in regard to sex; he speaks ill of homosexuality and masturbation, and proclaims that "without guilt, sex was meaningless." In fact, one sometimes wonders whether Mailer is not really an undercover agent of the old order, trying to undermine the Left from within...
...vessel, and a plow that could be built onto the bow of a ship during construction. "There is no question in my mind," he says, "that one day icebreakers will no longer be used. Cargo ships themselves will do the ice-breaking." In a prelude to such an era, two Alexbow-equipped barges will be driven by a 5,000-h.p. trawler through 200 miles of Arctic ice this summer to supply a consortium drilling for oil on Canada's northernmost islands...
...most of the time he plies a sober, analytical course through the jazz recordings made between New Orleans' Storyville days and the birth of the big-band era in the early 1930s. He scrutinizes Louis Armstrong's solo on Big Butter and Egg Man (1926) as if it were a song of Mozart's. In fact, he writes, "not even a Mozart or a Schubert composed anything more natural and simply inspired." Blues Singer Bessie Smith's laments of a gin-soaked life might as well be lieder sung by Lotte Lehmann for the way Schuller...