Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hundreds of students sprinted across Tercentenary Theater toward the Science Center, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III rushed to a Centrex telephone to find out whether Sanders Theatre was available as a precautionary measure given the unexpectedly huge crowd...
Peterson said he felt allowing doctors to consider suicide as an option for a patient would undermine their ability to cure that patient. This fear was especially present due to the huge hold profitability has in HMOs, he said...
...interesting than many of its contents--the dull, inflated conceptual art and late minimalism that appeals to the taste of the Guggenheim's Krens. There is a whole gallery of messages from Jenny Holzer; a fatuous "work" by Laurence Weiner in the form of the word reduced written in huge block letters on the wall of its main gallery; another gallery devoted to a single drawing by Sol Lewitt; some huge and utterly banal sculpture by Jim Dine; and so on. And, of course, that one-shot icon of the conformity of late-Modernist official taste, Jeff Koons' Puppy...
Krens seems to have a fixed belief that bigger is necessarily better and that the significant art of the past 30 years is necessarily huge. Some of it is, of course--like Robert Rauschenberg's enormous Barge, 1963, which the Guggenheim recently bought. But a great deal of late-American Modernism is just arbitrarily big. It's as though the larger spaces of Gehry's design caused the art to inflate by suction. Still, some very big pieces work very well here, notably Claes Oldenburg's soft shuttlecock drooping from a balcony of the atrium, and the curving steel sheets...
...Daily Mirror... Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum...opened to the public last week... What first visitors saw, as they walked through the newly opened doors, was a huge, sudden space that swirled breathtakingly to the high dome. This, they recognized, was a building whose closed outer face deliberately belied the soaring drama of its interior... [L]ooking across the well at the opening show of 134 paintings and sculptures...most were forced to concede that the great curved...