Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COCAINE. Though exact figures are hard to pin down, more and more people apparently are getting a kick out of this extract of the South American coca leaf. Long known as the "society high." cocaine is now being used by everyone from affluent suburbanites to drug-savvy ghetto kids. The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that almost 8 million Americans have tried cocaine at least once, usually by sniffing it in a powdery form ("snorting"). Cocaine's proponents, who included Freud, swear by the drug, insisting that it produces a sense of euphoria, increases sexual sensations, reduces fatigue...
Land of Superego. Motherwell creates a world of remarkably exact feeling, into which one can move without strain, while knowing at each moment that the precision of his sensuousness is there to correct the randomness of ours. This mixture of joyousness and didacticism pervades the best of French modernism, but Motherwell is the one American artist who can make it work...
What drawing is to other artists, tearing is to Motherwell. Nowhere is his balance between accident and elegance more apparent than in his big collages, with their torn and pasted edges of stiff paper, so casually exact in placement. Works like NRF Collage No. 4, 1973, have an almost Olympian detachment about them. The sense of classical well-being furnished by Motherwell's recent work reminds one of an English epicure's definition of heaven: "Eating fresh foie gras to the sound of trumpets...
...light-plane manufacturers will sell 12,300 small single-engine prop jobs like the familiar Beechcraft Bonanza at a total wholesale cost of $375 million. Yet their sales of bigger jet craft, while projected at just 230 planes, will bring them almost as much revenue: $368 million, to be exact...
...Gardner Museum is located a few blocks from the MFA. This Venetian Palace houses the collection of Isabella Stuart Gardner, who apparently stipulated in her will that all the paintings in the collection must be left in the exact position she left them in; nothing can be re-arranged to make room for a special show. But the collection, which includes at least a smattering of almost every great master's work and several exquisite antiques, is magnificent. And if the pictures never change, the elaborate arrangements of flowers in the huge couryard do, and the gardens outside provide...