Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Avery was not good at maintaining a suavely impasted surface, though sometimes he could bring one off with real subtlety the bursting fan of foam over the rocks in White Wave, 1954, is like a Monet haystack made of water, not grass. But the major Averys, like Sea and Sand Dunes, 1955, or Speedboat's Wake, 1959, are thin, taut, nearly as evanescent looking as weather itself. Their pictorial construction is achieved almost entirely through color: the weight of a red, the brooding distension of a purplish sea against a blue headland. Nothing is subordinate in such paintings...
NCPAC could have found all this out if they had ever bothered to do any grass-roots organizing along with their polling. But that would have violated a basis NCPAC principal--that voters are infinitely manipulatable by political-technological gimmickry. This time, NCPAC's slavish adherence to this notion has resulted only in an enormous waste of New Right money and a backlash against their preferred candidate. In Maryland, at least, the voters still know the difference between a Senate campaign and an ad campaign...
...described the Weirton buyout as "a kind of homespun socialism." Rather, the story appears to be about a heartening attempt at grass-roots capitalism that could be good...
...Festival's open-air theater in Central Park. The scenery takes full advantage of the fact that there is a real lake for a backdrop and real stars are a twinkle in God's Own Cyclorama. The greens that fill the stage are genuine trees, shrubs and grass, implanted on a gently rolling surface that could not be more naturalistic if someone had dug up a wood near Athens and shipped it to Manhattan C.O.D. Unlike the more self-conscious conceits that have been lavished on this most visually entrancing of Shakespeare's works, Heidi Landesman...
...comprehensive and sympathetic survey of the social and economic issues that have galvanized conservatives, neoconservatives, evangelicals, Moral Majority members and the New Right, Pines finds the source of this counterrevolution in the backyards of millions of resentful Americans. "Resurgent traditionalism," he writes, "is most dynamic at the grass roots, in life's very private, yet most critical sectors. There, legions of Americans are going back to basics in education, back to Scripture and spirituality in religion, back to trusting the free enterprise system, back to appreciating the nuclear family...