Word: hugh
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Perhaps the most gifted of the eight artists is the painter Hugh O'Donnell. His large, crammed canvases owe something to Frank Stella in their controlled decorative fullness. They also allude to Japanese Momoyama screens, and that is no accident since O'Donnell studied them while on a fellowship to Kyoto in the mid-'70s. The desire to activate every part of the surface with emphatic silhouetted forms, stopping just short of congestion, is the animating principle of O'Donnell's work: he is a trader in visual surprises who can set his big, fractured...
...Hugh Rogers, 20, lives with his divorced mother on the flat fringes of a city that is never named, perhaps because he cannot distinguish it from "all the suburbs, the duplex development motorhome supermarket parking lot used cars carport swingset white rocks juniper imitation bacon bits special gum wrappers where in five different states he had lived the last seven years." His astronomical address, 14067½-C Oak Valley Road, mocks the idea of a coherent community. His job as a checker in a nearby supermarket by the freeway leads nowhere, and neither, as far as he can tell, does...
Return visits convince Hugh that there is something strange about this place. Hours spent there amount only to minutes in the world to which he returns. "He would live two lives," he thinks in the first flush of discovery. "In fact he would live two lives in the space of one, twice as long in the same amount of time." He is intrigued but not discomfited to learn that his spot exists always in twilight. His pleasure is threatened only by Irene, a woman his age and equally rootless, who discovered this world years earlier and tries...
...principles as a cornerstone of the case-by-case review of the argument for the retention of the University's more than $250 million investments in 65 companies. Both Lawrence F. Stevens '65, secretary of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), and his liason on the Corporation, Hugh Calkins '45, believe corporations satisfy their moral and ethical responsibilities in South Africa when they fully implement the principles...
...polls show Carter beating him almost everywhere, including New Hampshire. In a poll published this week in the Boston Globe, Democratic and independent voters in the Granite State gave Carter a healthy 54% to 36% lead over Kennedy. Sensing disaster, prominent politicians, like New York's Governor Hugh Carey, were backing away from Kennedy...