Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current exhibits demonstrate his lifelong fascination with every permutation of show business and fashion. No graphic artist and designer of his time has displayed greater versatility and playfulness in creating modes of illusion. Take the mysterious objects in the Dyansen Gallery windows. Rococo confections of white foxtails and myriad colored stones, they are headdresses that once topped the nakedness of Paris showgirls. On the gallery walls are Erté's original paintings of the sets and costumes he created for such disparate productions as George White's Scandals in New York City in the '20s and Mozart...
...freeing of form continued, until Lowell had freed his writing even from the conventions of approach which prohibited the use of personal detail as subject matter. The Dolphin (1973) drew heavily from his breakup with Hardwick and aroused critical furor. Lifelong friends of Lowell's--Elizabeth Bishop included--advised him not to publish the manuscript. He went ahead anyway and wound up pioneering a new poetry; it was confessional, elevated to art and updated by the new approaches to the 20th century...
...lifelong liberal "who was participating in civil rights marches in 1963. He speaks out on the nuclear freeze and gay rights and why everyone should use seat belts, although he feels awkward doing it, because he thinks he should. After a frustrating nuclear-freeze debate on television recently with Hollywood conservative Charlton Heston, Newman was doubtful about his own effectiveness. But he is an experienced campaigner, and he soon cheered up. "I've done better and I've done worse, but in the final analysis, it was better than not doing anything at all." His interest in weapons...
Pisar's recollections of the ghetto remain vivid. It was here; on his thirteenth birthday, that he was bar mitzvahed in a shabby synagogue in full sight of the pacing Nazi guards. It was here that he first met Ben, the lifelong friend who accompanied him through the camps and with whom he made a solemn pact to survive. And it was here that his father kissed the family goodbye and left home for the last time. A few months later, the ghetto was razed and those who survived were put on a train for the camps...
Maida Heatter's New Book of Great Desserts (Knopf; $17.50) has two equally good apple tarts: one, with an apricot glaze, might belong on the Thanksgiving or Christmas table. The book's most celebrated item will undoubtedly be her French chocolate loaf cake, the result of "a lifelong search" for the recipe for a particular gateau sold at a French pastry shop in New York City...