Word: fored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plays a mean fiddle off-hours displayed some fan cy footwork on the Senate floor last week. Frustrated in past sessions by the increased use of the filibuster and the postcloture filibuster, Byrd decided to do something about both obstructionist tactics. After much study, he was convinced, just be fore the session began, that he had found an answer, though he was not telling anybody what...
That sense of reality in the midst of abstraction, of the painting as an object rather than an image, would stay with Nicholson. It is not much to the fore in his first tentative cubist paintings, but it is evident in the severely geometric white reliefs Nicholson did in the 1930s under the spell of constructivism and Mondrian, and it pervades his later work. The viewer is always aware of material gently asserting itself: how the tobacco-brown hardboard, rubbed and glazed with a pow dery white or blue that clings to its sur face like fog to a headland...
...After a run of a hundred years or so," wrote one of America's leading architecture critics, Peter Blake, in his belligerent text Form Follows Fiasco (1977), "Modern Dogma is worn out. We are now close to the end of one epoch, and well be fore the start of a new one. During this period of transition there will be no moratorium on building ... there will just be more and more architecture without architects." To travel in American cities is to know what he meant; the townscape of the '70s is perfused with cost-accountant buildings that bear no trace...
Michael Caine and Maggie Smith have never worked with each other be fore, but in the remaining subplot they make a perfect match. Smith gives her best screen performance ever in the role of a hard-drinking, hard-talking actress who arrives in Beverly Hills for Oscar night. Alternately buoyant and defeated, youthful and aging, she transforms a potentially campy character into a woman of great complexity and beauty. As her loving husband, an antiques dealer who prefers sex with men, Caine sets off Smith's brittle wit with soothing tenderness. Together these actors prove that a marriage...
...fire under it. True, the KGB has a big station in Tehran. True, some Iranian leftists have been trained by the Palestinians. But the inescapable fact is that Communist and Arab agitation do not begin to explain the extent of opposition to the Shah, and there fore do not begin to justify a superpower confrontation...