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...tawdry yet luminous 6-ft. by 8-ft. canvas completed at the culmination of the cycle in 1950. Why it is called Excavation is a mystery that remains with De Kooning. In fact, it resembles little except perhaps a crackling bonfire, where visions of possible nymphs and improbable satyrs gyre in the obscuring smoke. But it delves profoundly into method, its seething forms eluding both definition and restriction. Exhibited at the Venice Biennale later in 1950, along with works by Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky, it helped to establish Abstract Expressionism as the major art of its time...
Turning in the widening gyre...
...piece orchestra in his own three-minute baroque version of The Twist. The white-maned maestro played the score "tempo a la Chubby Checker" after listening to one of the tubby twister's records and checking it with a metronome. Afterward, at a local nightclub to gyre and gimbal a bit himself, Fiedler adjudged the dance craze: "It's authentic primitive Americana, not from Siberia or Laos, I don't think it's physically unattractive either...
Turning and turning in the widening gyre...
...Yeatsian distress the Harvard community gazes anxiously at the widening gyre of its dramatic activities. With at least a dozen groups already formed and new ones blossoming each month, there is some ground for this mild hysteria. Opinions differ as to the nature of the problem--some say that acting talent is spread too thinly, other that there is not enough capital at hand--but the groups agree that the root of the trouble is dissipation of effort. Many feel that this dispersion can only be prevented by legislation...