Word: frontierment
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...decades (from his first job as cartoonist for a local paper in Joplin), Benton became the most popular 20th century American artist. His belligerently folksy murals, full of the pleasures of the hoedown and the Fourth of July picnic, the innocence of hillbilly Arcadia and the rigors of the frontier, were the very furniture of patriotism. And Benton's popularity was largely the result of a character he cultivated, or home-grew, for himself: the coarse-talking, no-nonsense man of the people, the Pa Kettle of American...
...Arts is, in its own words, "Providing Easterners with a rare look at this country's Far Western heritage." I will refrain from a snide comment that it's high time the Eastern Seaboard realized that heritage does exist West of the Rockies, but I can't comment on "Frontier America: The Far West" because I haven't gotten over to see it yet. The exhibit is the first of the MFA's bicentennial program, and includes household objects, drawings, paintings and photographs...
Like armed commuters, Israeli patrols struck the Arqub region of southern Lebanon for six successive nights last week. They had been stirred up by Palestinian guerrillas who had ambushed an Israeli halftrack, which had been patrolling the frontier hoping to knock out fedayeen before they could mount raids on Israeli settlements. The incident eventually provoked some of the heaviest fighting on the border in two years. In the village of Kfar Chouba, on the western slopes of Mount Hermon, fedayeen fought the Israelis stubbornly. During the past week, four fedayeen were killed and 12 wounded; the Israelis suffered 15 wounded...
...fighting was a different matter. Guerrillas, reportedly including members of the Syria-based Saiqa and Palestine Liberation Army units, were in the Arqub looking for chinks in the Israeli border. That border, as a result of earlier Palestinian attacks on civilian settlements, has now been almost hermetically sealed. The frontier, reported TIME'S Daniel Drooz after a trip there last week, is rigged with devices to forestall infiltration. There are observation posts, defoliated zones, minefields and electronic detectors, searchlights and magnesium flares for nighttime detection and barbed wire. "If they can get their hands up faster than...
Surprising Humility. Few artists successfully cross the frontier from classical to modern dance. Never has Nureyev's artistry been more tested than it is in Paul Taylor's Aureole, in which he must suspend the classical dancer's vertical impulse and substitute the modern dancer's low-lying weight shifts. Nureyev submits to the choreography with surprising humility, subduing his famous high-intensity powers of projection...