Word: graining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the cool, detailed gaze of photorealism on its plastic environment to romantic landscapists in Maine to the obsessive stare of the California painter who took seven years to finish a small picture of a few inches of sand, grain by grain, the variety is infinite. Photography has acquired a status unimaginable a decade ago. Meanwhile, abstract painters, released from the severity of their mission, are no longer embarrassed by pattern and decoration. As the desire to paint one's way into history recedes, a new subjectivity has replaced it, a free permit to import life whole into art through...
...more, the whole business might be interpreted as a restless and repressed Victorian fantasy. But let's refrain from spoiling with pretentious theories a film that makes such good fun of its own pretentious style. Call Story of Sin a paean to romanticism in reverse. And take with a grain of salt its subject matter: the exquisite fruitness...
...immediately ran into trouble. Because private opinion polls showed that many voters feared he might be too liberal, Carter swung around; he tried to sound more conservative and only lent credence to Republican charges that he flip-flopped on the issues. He staked out three slightly differing positions on grain embargoes; he spoke of ambitious new programs and of balancing the budget; he painted an almost Depression-like picture of the U.S. economy that many people perceived as unreal. In a year of skepticism about politicians, he was beginning to sound like any other exaggerating, overpromising...
...would not see any need in the future for additional grain embargoes. We've had three since Mr. Ford's been in office, none of which were necessary. I would try to strengthen trade. We've relegated foreign trade to a secondary position in our country for too long, and we now have a very severe balance of trade deficit...
...Western Europe. The Soviet Union, responding to the oil crisis of 1973, increased the price of vital crude oil for the Poles 150%, to $8 per bbl. To make matters worse, Poland was hit by severe droughts in 1974 and 1975, forcing it to buy $2 billion worth of grain from...