Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English tortoises (the other being Frank Auerbach) who are crossing the finish line just when most of the short-winded art hyped in the 1980s has gone dead on its feet. Both are, so to speak, redemptive artists, sustaining and enlarging a tradition of the expressive human figure that seems largely to have been colonized by ham-fisted ephemerids. When neoexpressionism arrived in the early '80s, it was as though an army of Bronze Age hectors had assembled, chanting hoarsely of sex, anxiety, death and egotism, leaving long tracks of slimy paint and broken crockery behind them in their progress...
Relaxing at his elegant mountainside log house at Montreat, N.C., Graham recalled his ten-day Soviet marathon with wonderment: "You couldn't believe that human beings could live through it at any age." How long will this keep up? In 1989 there will be a London mission, linked by satellite to hundreds of sites in Britain and Africa. Graham is mulling bids from Hong Kong for 1990, and after that Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Kinshasa. His doctor hopes he can persist till age 75, but Graham wonders. "To try to hold the attention of a crowd of ten, twenty, thirty...
...government and nonprofit administrators. While that will continue, Schmidt plans to focus on traditional teaching methods. He hopes to end a debilitating feud between professors of standard academic subjects such as finance and accounting and those, chiefly in organizational behavior, who emphasize role playing and the importance of human relations in settling disputes. "Relations had deteriorated to where faculty members were barely civil to each other," said finance professor Stephen Ross. After last week's turmoil, a new class in compromise might be welcome...
...tale of taste, a couple who are in an erotic "phase of rarefaction" are vacationing in Mexico. They find a new mode of communication through their experience of the fiery local cuisine. Its spiciness, they find, derives from the seasoning used by the early Indians of the region for human sacrifices. After this revelation, the couple's own dining becomes a kind of sacrament, the food of each becoming the substance of the other...
...Mail's co-editor, Anton Harber, called the suspension an act of "narrow-mindedness and intolerance." The editors pledged to keep the staff busy by bringing out special issues under other titles, on such topics as human rights and censorship. While the Mail will lose money, the paper is expected to survive the closing...