Word: formation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philip Guston were the twin unlatchers of "new figuration," at least in America. Morley was an expressionist artist when most of the current crop of neoexpressionists were still, aesthetically speaking, in diapers. His mix of mass-media cliche with intimate confession, his abrupt shifts of gear in imagery and format, and his therapeutic desire to shovel his whole life-traumas, lusts, memories, hopes-onto the canvas, struck many younger painters as a fresh model of artistic character. In the past few years, aping this or that aspect of his work has almost become a cottage industry; West Broadway is full...
LONG BEFORE America's oldest monthly changed its look and format, there were long faces and knowing smiles in the magazine world. Rumor had it that Lewis Lapharm. Harper's former editor, had regained his job on the strength of a memo he wrote to Harper's board which outlined a proposal for a drastic change in the magazine's ideology. There were whispers that the economically troubled monthly was going to become a glorified op-ed page in an effort to become more commercially successful...
...would help America "see how much more beautiful and strange and full of possibility is the world that can be imagined by the mythographers at Time or NBC." But he was in effect, admitting that for the sixth time in its 134 year history. Harper's was changing its format in order "to continue to function as a barometer of the social and intellectual weather of the times...
...Sony Corp. is encountering, TIME stated that companies such as Toshiba and NEC have abandoned Sony's Beta videotape sys tem in favor of the VHS method developed by Sony's archrival Matsushita. This is not true. Toshiba and NEC are continuing to offer the Beta format to their customers. TIME regrets the error...
...year-long sophomore course my son was subjected to a graduate student who ran the whole course, evidently without the least bit of supervision. Only once during the first semester did this woman trouble herself with writing out paper assignments. And when they were written out, they followed the format I have just described. This graduate student liked to deliver paper topics orally, always at the last minute, so that she had plenty of opportunity to complain afterwards about how the students "really didn't do the assignment" or "focus" in their writing. Of course no one "really" knew what...