Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, this book is more than just an intro to the coldwater SoHo loft that is Frank Stella's mind. Stella has assigned himself the second task of uncovering the origin of the "crisis of abstraction," the growing consensus even among practitioners that contemporary abstract art bores the hell out of people. Stella attributes this yawning chasm between potential and performance to the flat, two-dimensional quality of the abstraction of the 1970s and '80s, heir to the tradition of highly colored "decorative" paintings exemplified by Delacroix and Malevich...
...probationary tenure appointment at Cal State. Her income has improved to about $28,000, but she still must sweat out the standard six-year probationary period, knowing that around 1988 it could end with one year's notice to get lost. Says she: "It makes me nervous as hell...
...Hell, every week that goes by, it's almost accepted as a common event, a near midair!" complains Captain Hank Duffy, the outspoken head of the 39,000- member Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). Says Duffy: "Near midairs, runway incursions, delays -- every indicator in the system says that we're hanging by our fingernails...
...groups, gangs, panels, conclaves and councils had been set up to investigate one or all of the parts of the affair. That is a formidable force for anybody to face, even Ronald Reagan, he of monumental disdain for the catcalls from the galleries. The President might just decide to hell with it all and sleep late -- er, sleep later...
...hell with the teachers who won't comebecause they're too stuck-up," said Ellen Havdala'88. "Guys, $1000 when we can do it in one of thehouses for free...