Word: formed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painting being so much more than its subject, you can't pin down an artist by naming his favorite motif. From Mondrian and the Russian constructivists on, many an abstract artist has gone for the stripe in all its apparent simplicity -- the line that baldly, mysteriously becomes a form in itself. Yet their paintings are not like one another's: there is no confusing the precise black vibration of a Bridget Riley with the effect of one of Barnett Newman's "zips" or the slightly blurred, funereal pinstriping of an early Frank Stella. Today the stripe continues to linger...
...energy on the surface, in deference to the prevalent American art theory of the day and, to some degree, in homage to Riley. The work of Mark Rothko, which Scully had seen as a student, was a presiding influence. It had shown him how a neutral and even boring form, an imperfect rectangle, could accumulate reserves of feeling and cogitation -- how the life of the mind and its tentative decisions could be embodied, not just illustrated, in pigment. And there had been a visit to Morocco in 1970; there Scully saw stripes everywhere, dyed into awnings and djellabas and bolts...
...have an impact that transcends the week's news. Says Hal Quinley, a senior vice president at Yankelovich: "Polls, along with the press, are one of the many ways people comment and respond to their political leaders." We happen to agree, but as always, we encourage our readers to form their own opinions...
...study, conducted in Sweden, involved 23,244 women who were taking various types of estrogen, one of the main female sex hormones, after menopause; a third of them were also on progestin, an artificial form of the hormone progesterone. The researchers compared these women with others who had not taken hormones. The results: after nine years the women who took a kind of estrogen called estradiol had about twice the breast-cancer rate of those who were not on replacement therapy. The women on estrogen and progestin had a higher rate -- about four times as many cases of breast cancer...
When he was young and poor, Irwin Shaw wrote well. His first play, Bury the Dead, was an emblematic work of social- protest theater in the 1930s. His lyrically realistic New Yorker short stories in the same era expanded the form's horizons, and, because he made it look easy -- almost fun -- to be so good, they became inspiring, formative experiences for several generations of writers...