Word: lay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these was not so much a style as a "look." For expressionism was largely an ethical matter, a display of exemplary anguish. It was one of the last convulsions of northern romanticism; and like all romantic painting, it was essentially an art of subject matter. The expressionist attitude lay at the opposite pole of experience from the sensuous, Cartesian quality of French art. At the time Kirchner painted his self-portrait in conscript's uniform, France had also experienced-from the other side of the trenches-the horrors of total war. But nothing by a major French painter...
...medal at the Innsbruck Olympics. After that debacle, the team's annual budget was doubled, to $600,000, and its staff of coaches increased from half a dozen to 14. "With that kind of organizational and financial stability," says Alpine Ski Team Director Hank Tauber, "I can finally lay out ten-month racing and training programs and prepare younger racers as well." This year the American team trails only those of Austria and Switzerland in World Cup points, a heady jump from a seventh-place finish one year...
...young navigator for destroyer flotillas at the Battle of Jutland in World War I. But his finest hour came in April 1944, when, as a vice admiral, he directed a crippling aircraft carrier attack on Hitler's last remaining giant battleship, the 45,000-ton Tirpitz, as it lay in a Norwegian fjord...
...that 1L feeling of 'How in God's name am I going to make it through all these commitments?'" Most of all, though, his new job should afford Turow the chance to achieve the success he has been searching for since his years at Stanford. Perhaps he will even lay his "enemy" to rest...
...exhibition of his work has ever done as well by him as this one, organized by Art Historian John R. Lane: 113 paintings and drawings, an excellent catalogue text and, for the first time, a full view of the relationships between theory and practice that lay at the core of Davis' work and enabled him to transcend his provinciality...