Word: ests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mannered and superficial; no wonder that the paintings of the New York School had such a traumatic impact on their aesthetic environment. Nothing could be tamer than the late-cubist scaffolding, the tidy compartmenting of the surface that provided the formal recipes of artists like Serge Poliakoff and Maurice Estève. Then there were the "religious" abstractionists, like Alfred Manessier, with their mock stained glass; and the gestural painters, like the appalling Georges Mathieu. By the mid-'50s, most of what Paris could offer a painter was concentrated in the museums; there was little enough life...
...peuple c 'est moi! Thus the 20th century, for Americans the century of the common man, became for the British the century of the common monarch, whose position depended, not on divine right or any other sanctions but on personal charisma...
...World War I was hard to beat as an example of dunderheaded, pointless slaughter. The men who fought it hated it just as much?and even in the same vocabularies?as the men who fought in Viet Nam. They went into it with the same illusions: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Horace told the boys in the public schools. John Wayne played the part of Horace in America. But finally, after Passchendaele in 1917, Lieut. General Sir Launcelot Kiggell saw the thing honestly. He looked out at the mud-soaked fields, burst into tears and muttered: "Good...
...director has found a youngster who, though she has never acted before, has vulnerability and intelligence. Still the film seems inconsequential. Anne and her friends learn a few things and grow up a notch or two, the way people always do in stories of this kind. C'est la vie, c'est l'ennui...
...zealously ambitious Koreans who run New York City's best vegetable markets, or boat people trying to open a restaurant, or chicanes who struggle to start a small business in the barrio are still years away from est and the Sierra Club...