Word: erosion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THE METHOD AND DEVELOPMENT of the play resemble a remark made by the psychologist Erik Erikson. Discussing Eros, the psychological principle of love, Erikson asserts that love is, theoretically and potentially, universal. In quaintly secular fashion, Erikson approaches an idealization of the power of love not unlike the old Christian...
Finale: Maestoso. New York, Carnegie Hall. Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde begin at the very edge of audibility. Celibidache's pianissimi are courageous, and in them, Eros stretches provocatively. Each intense, chromatic line is achingly detailed, and when the climax of the Love-Death...
By the early '70s Morley's painting was largely about violence happening to a spuriously calm surface. In Los Angeles Yellow Pages, 1971, a jagged rip appears in a huge Los Angeles phone-directory cover, thus eerily predicting the city's real 1971 earthquake. A postcard scene...
Wilson has also published two biographies, on Milton and Sir Walter Scott, and until recently was literary editor of the conservative weekly Spectator. A seventh novel about a sex scandal in Parliament has just appeared to enthusiastic reviews in London. Clearly the man can write like the wind. His admiration...
Is there a less "feminine" woman artist of her generation? Probably not. Even Krasner's favorite pink, a domineering fuchsia that raps hotly on the eyeball at 50 paces, is aggressive, confrontational; and when her line evokes eros, its grace is modified by a rough, improvisatory movement, a distrust...