Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only common ground of the paintings on exhibit is that each was conceived on French soil during this century. Everything from Bonnard's impressionism to mirror-mobiles by Argentinian Julio le Parc can be found in it. Regrettably, in cutting back the show to fit limited gallery space here in Boston, the very most recent works--pop, op, neo-surrealist, have born the brunt of sacrifice. The point of the show, and the point of Paris, is its newness, excitement and freedom. No one has ever accused Boston of the same...
...terribly inaccurate and dishonest reporter. He gets his message across by implication and by recounting incidents which are heavily contrived to fit his message and lifted out of context to maximize sensational effect...
...make a decision by the end of summer, perhaps earlier, under pressure from the United Nations Trusteeship Council, which is reviewing U.S. stewardship of the Pacific islands. The U.N. was prodded by a Peace Corpsman's moving plea that urged: "If Bikini is free of radiation and is fit for human habitation, please call on the United States to return these people to their homes...
...Time, fall 1966; place, Lincoln Center. In her dressing room at the new home of the New York City Opera, Beverly is following the operatic custom of recalling events too numerous and complex to fit dramatically into a single scene. In the dazzling aria di bravura, Wasn't It Operatic?, she sings of her successful debut in Die Fledermaus in 1955, and of her subsequent leading roles in Faust, Don Giovanni and The Ballad of Baby Doe. A quartet of music critics, bearing bouquets of flowery superlatives, utters the rousing paean, These Tired Ears Lo at Long Last Rejoice...
Nothing about the exhibit seems to fit among the musty antiquities of Assyrian Hall in the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. Eye-popping red, blue and yellow paints are splashed inside the glass showcases; a lettered wheel whirls out breezy explanations in art nouveau type. Topping off the extravaganza is a large wall map, lit up by flickering red neon tubing. It is the kind of show that conservative diggers dismiss with a scornful epithet: "Pop Archaeology...