Word: heroicize
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...stands, Fairfield Porter was always a bit of an anomaly in the New York art world. He doesn't fit the standard profile of postwar American painting. People thought -- and to a degree, some now think -- that his work was "soft": civil and private, figurative in a time of heroic abstraction, obsessed with the invocation of natural beauty. But scratch its agreeable surface, and there is flint below, and an unquenchable heat of pictorial intelligence. Or so one realizes, looking at the retrospective of Porter's work from the 1940s to his death in 1975, now at the Parrish...
...heroic battle, two Lampoon staffers drowned a smoky fire in their building last night...
...history since 1939 -- right up to the post-Soviet present when, she wrote in 1990, "hand-to-hand-fighting has begun, each against each, zealously trying to drag everything toward a private nest" -- such a background cannot help giving a special character to a sculptor's use of the "heroic" figure, to her ideas on the body's status as a container of esthetic feeling, to her sense of the monumental. How can you imagine a monument in a culture that has been ideologically corrupt for half a century...
...report from the field, admits the goal is better numbers. In the 12 years since Rather took over for Walter Cronkite, the show's share of the audience has shriveled by a third. Meanwhile, Tom Brokaw's piece has shrunk only 10%, and Peter Jennings' has held steady -- heroic achievements in this twilight-of-the-networks...
...moving to me." But, as this album demonstrates, what might be running in place for anyone else is, on the Nelson speedometer, past the red line and nearly off the scale. With the careful attention of producer Don Was, he has made a record in the time-honed cool heroic style: with no apparent effort or ambition. A great album? Sure, partner. No sweat...