Word: liffey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other hand, the concerto by Takemitsu, 54, is a delicate, elusive short piece in one movement that is more obviously Joycean in its free-flowing play of ideas. Hardly a bravura technical display, it is instead restrained; if Albert's River Liffey is sometimes a raging torrent, Takemitsu's is a gentle stream...
...Motherwell's color is never descriptive. Even the more recent arrivals on his palette, like the soft greens and grayed browns of "Irish" paintings like Riverrun, 1972, an homage to Joyce's meditations on Dublin's river, the Liffey, soon acquire this fixed quality. Color in Motherwell is not an adjective, but a noun...
...conspiracies and controversy involving high-ranking public figures. And then there is dogged investigative reporting and at least one "Deep Throat." Sound familiar? Well, yes, but this is Dublin 1983, not Washington 1973. The central character is former Prime Minister Charles Haughey; the scandal is Liffeygate, after the River Liffey that bisects Ireland's capital city...
...Leopold Bloom-citizen, husband, father, wanderer, reincarnation of Ulysses." The Irish capital has changed in other small ways. A bronze bust of James Joyce stands in St. Stephen's Green, a small park near the city's center. The Chapelizod Bridge across the greenish River Liffey has been rechristened the Anna Livia Bridge, named after Anna Livia Plurabelle, the female force that flows through Finnegans Wake. Little by little, the city that Joyce so painstakingly preserved in his fiction is reshaping itself into his images...
Indeed, they might be. Joyce liked praise, and it is now coming to him and his work from some unexpected quarters. Red-bearded Patrick O'Rourke stands by the Liffey, leaning on his bicycle. "I left school at twelve," he says. "Now I'm trying to read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. From my point of view, it's a case of trying to educate myself. Just reading Joyce has helped me to appreciate the simple things of life. He changed my life long before the centenary...