Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow with riding breeches and a blonde-streaked pageboy is peering under a trunk marked "Five Dollar Shoes;" "Where's my yellow bracelet? I had two yellow bracelets." "You look exquisite without it dear," says the lady with the English accent. She is Jobriath's hairdresser. "Dahling, would you fix me a drink; I don't want any of this horse piss." Husky men in tight pants and T-shirts, reading "Queen," hustle about the room moving microphones and wires...
...ambitions created for him by his mother and his society, ambitions frustrated by the Depression, and he faces it with the least amount of experience. But he carries off the part of Ralph with enough expertise to make heartbeats flutter when he proclaims his new resolve: "Maybe we'll fix it so life won't be printed on dollar bills...
...Kooning is a traditional kind of draftsman, and his work with pencil or crayon always pursues an active, symbiotic relationship with his paintings. Drawing explores and refines but does not quite fix an inventory of shapes that eventually find their way onto the canvas. It is a way of keeping the choices open by profuse addition. Now this process of working from drawings into paintings was not much to the fore in abstract expressionism. For Pollock to do a preliminary sketch for one of his drip paintings would have subverted their aesthetic intent, since the web of form depended...
Familiar and Folksy. His style was familiar, direct and often pleasantly illuminated with scholarly or folksy references. U.S. policy in Viet Nam reminded him of Little Miss Fix-It, "who ends up with blood all over her pretty little hands." On governmental censorship, he complained that the Administration was suffering from "Daddy-knowsbestism-telling us not to ask questions or Daddy spank." Or on Watergate, recalling his own service in the OSS and his close study of the techniques of other spy services, Alsop could write with coldly measured indignation: "Politicians have played tricks on each other since politics...
...fast life, and early on the Duke developed an ability to compose anywhere-restaurants, buses, hotels, even taxis. He wrote his first big hit, Mood Indigo, in 15 minutes while waiting for his mother to fix dinner. Many of his early works shimmered with exotic "jungle" colors, achieved through the clever use of mutes, slurs and growls, that were intended to romanticize the African roots of jazz. Later works such as Warm Valley and Dusk took on subtle pastels and sophisticated shapes. Ellington's style and reputation eventually transcended jazz, and he even performed with major symphony orchestras...