Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they didn't take the hint, and cruised down I-86 right into the jaws of a growling Yale bulldog, masquerading as an outnumbered but extremely psyched Eli women's swim team...
...large, have not been aggressive in sending the work of their living artists abroad, while American museums, foundations and dealers have flooded Europe with every kind of U.S. "product" from abstract expressionism to photorealism. No market, no museum shows: few American museums in recent years have given any hint that England has sculptors younger than Anthony Caro, or painters less celebrated than David Hockney. Thus the Guggenheim Museum's current show, "British Art Now," is doubly interesting. Chosen by the museum's curator of exhibitions, Diane Waldman, it consists of work by eight artists, a sample with...
...dramatic sense of a stage designer, Muybridge observed lions, donkeys, dogs, deer, even elephants as they strode and ran. Their movements, caught in chiaroscuro, give the studies an eerie, dreamlike quality that has never quite been duplicated. Other series of nude men, women and children are done without a hint of prurience and provide a brilliant study of anatomy. The price tag on this rediscovered classic is prohibitive, but no library can afford to skip works that prove photography was a high art long before the electronic-shutter and autofocus robots that now pass for cameras...
...hint of that possibility came next day, on the first anniversary of the Shah's departure from Iran. As American journalists packed their typewriters and cameras, awaiting their flights home, surprisingly few Muslim militants turned out for a scheduled embassy protest. But some newsmen speculated that the expulsions might presage new moves involving the hostages, such as show trials. For now, what happens in Iran will have to be gleaned by the U.S. press in roundabout fashion: placing long-distance phone calls to Iranian officials and foreign diplomats in Tehran; making arrangements with the remaining Western reporters...
...show people may be glamorous, but they are not to be taken seriously Tynan, the great appreciator of rare abilities, can explain the aggressive surrealism of Mel Brooks' ethnic humor, but it does not quite appear to be the Briton's cup of tea. There is a hint of distance in the title of the Brooks piece...