Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Close, or with such riveting effects. These are lost in reproduction--the image shrinks back to being just another photo, and its command on your attention (huge, august, frontal, like the head of a Pantocrator from a Byzantine apse) vanishes. Only from the originals can one grasp what Close means when he says, in a catalog interview with curator Storr, that "I wanted to make something that was impersonal and personal, arm's-length and intimate, minimal and maximal, using the least amount of paint possible but providing the greatest amount of information possible...
...have predicted quite accurately the challenges faced by Zhu Rongji in the years ahead [WORLD, March 16] as China's new Premier. But Zhu's greatest strength is also his weakness. He has Western fans who admire his grasp of detail, but he has only narrow support in China's bureaucracy. Leftists do not like his familiarity with market economics. Conservatives accuse him of neglecting inland provinces, and the Young Turks of Beijing are jealous of his rapid rise. All these factors make Zhu less threatening and more acceptable to President and party leader Jiang Zemin. Also, one needs...
...within the department, that I'm not shooting a crane or an excavator-that you're there at this performance, watching this happen." In response to those who fear that the project sounds gloomy, Merriman explains that her piece is meant to invoke a child's innocuous eagerness to grasp the concept of death rather than a morbid desire to linger on tragedy. The poignant images captured by Merriman are, in fact, quite uplifting somehow, even strangely humorous at times...
...sexual harassment, and how did it evolve into such a beast? Legally speaking, there are two kinds of sexual harassment, and Jones--to take a not so random example--charges both. The first is called "quid pro quo" harassment, and it's the easier to grasp. If your boss docks your pay or fires you or otherwise punishes you for rebuffing an advance, he's flat-out guilty. Jones, for instance, says her supervisors at the little state office where she was a clerk mistreated her after she rejected Governor Clinton's alleged advance. Her co-workers got bigger raises...
...making interpretive art. As Ma says during a discussion with Morris, "I think that what this music is attempting to describe is something that can take all of the imagination of lots of people put together, and still it's trying to describe something that we can't quite grasp." That living, ineffable something about Bach's music, of course, is what makes it art; if you could pin that down, the music would wither. One imagines the same might be true...