Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee--noting that the Harvard Government Department was recently ranked number one in a national survey-- said that it must improve its physical facilities in order to continue it's fine academic tradition...
...sort of ease. Curated by Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson, its bulk (some 400 works in all media) creates the fatigued impression that everything in Rauschenberg's vast and uneven output has been dumped into the hopper and left for the individual viewer to sort out. Which is fine if you've followed the artist's work over the decades, but it must be intimidating if you're new to it; and the younger part of its audience will...
...people busy for eight hours." It was true enough to be a difficulty: the basis of Rauschenberg's genius as an artist, despite his love of collaboration, has always been his autographic touch, the sense that one sensibility was at work on the world, picking up and discarding things, fine-tuning personal responses. In some of the later work the collective effort shades over into an almost corporate look--not slick, exactly, but overelaborated, as though done partly on autopilot...
Wright does a fine job of explaining the opening chapters of my new book, Should You Leave?, especially the sections that deal with the solutions to marital discord proposed by the mid-century psychiatrist Murray Bowen. Bowen favored an "autonomous" posture with the qualities Wright mentions: cerebral detachment, an American "inner directedness." What Wright does not say is that I spend the rest of the book questioning the ideal of autonomy. For most people, a desirable relationship contains passion, mutuality, obligation, unselfconsciousness--the opposite of detachment. Autonomy--independence--is our premier national value, but it can make for strange bedfellows...
...Landow's office that appeared to have been fashioned from the feathers of federally protected eagles. Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating and has already questioned several witnesses. If Landow is found in violation, penalties could range from forfeiture of the headdress to a stiff fine. Landow couldn't be reached for comment, but TIME has learned that the tribes could be moving ahead on what they care most about: a just completed Interior Department legal opinion sides with the Cheyenne-Arapaho on the land claim...