Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dreams of Movie Stardom she constructs a Hollywood that never was, where the '30s stars Lola, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane invite her to join them. Like Kafka's Amerika, Anne...
...program that the Great Communicator has been unable to sell to a skeptical Congress and nation. The commission, composed of Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, displayed enough independence to avoid any imputation that it had acted as a rubber stamp. The Democrats, led by AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, successfully insisted on some language that troubled both Reagan and Kissinger. Yet in the main they assented to proposals that one State Department official accurately described as "by and large, an endorsement of what Administration policy...
...Chairman Henry Kissinger; former New Jersey Senator Nicholas Brady; Henry Cisneros; former Governor of Texas William Clements; Carlos Diaz-Alejandro; National Federation of Independent Business President Wilson Johnson; Lane Kirkland; Political Analyst Richard Scammon; Boston University President John Silber; retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart; Robert Strauss; Project HOPE President William Walsh...
...American art had been sunk in earnest provinciality until the 1940s, when abstract expressionism unburdened itself upon the world stage. Nobody believes this today. In fact, the pendulum has gone so far in the other direction that a sea piece by any Boston dauber distantly connectable to Fitz Hugh Lane will command a price that not so long ago would have seemed too much for Turner. No vignette, however treacly, of apple-cheeked infants at the log schoolhouse or hirsute pioneers skinning the raccoon eludes the general resurrection. No grave of a deservedly buried name remains undug...
...American neoclassicism as the speech of elevated visual discourse and gave American artists heroic themes from their own history and experience. The second was the discovery of great space and, within its vastness, of unique nature. To this we owe the lucid, entranced sea visions of such painters as Lane and Heade. Theirs was the distinctive language of American luminism, with the surface of sea and sky like a membrane of pure contemplation, every pebble and mast distinct, caught in a kind of sacramental hush...