Word: ergs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painting and sculpture, John Elderfield, has assembled 114 works by 22 artists under the title "The 'Wild Beasts': Fauvism and Its Affinities." The title is presumably ironic, since the last impression the MOMA wants to give is that Fauve painting might keep so much as an erg of its old offensive power. "To look again at these exquisitely decorative paintings," writes Elderfield in his admirable catalogue essay, "is to realize that the term Fauvism tells us hardly anything at all about the ambitions or concepts that inform Fauvist art. 'Wild Beasts' seems the most unlikely...
Ready. Go. The two men erupted simultaneously, sprinted to a gruelling cadence, then settled into a pattern of long simulated oarstrokes that has induced many people to call the erg...
...worked, too, the day I was most frustrated about my thesis was the day of my highest erg score. Rowing's even helped me finish my thesis before my April deadline...
Rookie Suzanne Boyce voices her early impressions of the erg, "I remember hearing all sorts of scary stories of people getting off the erg and throwing up but it's not quite that bad, although a ten-minute piece seems like hours...
Ergo, while Bill Chapman may not mind winter rowing he still insists, "I hate that fucking erg...