Word: long
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stairs. "We'd say we were going to have a nap," recalled O'Keeffe. "Then we'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me." Stieglitz shot some 300 of those pictures, and they constitute a statement far beyond the pleasure principle. From every angle, the long melancholy face radiates an unconventional beauty; the nude torso takes on the authority and bulk of sculpture. Before the onlooker, the model is gradually transformed into a work...
...kept her courage and took long sojourns in New Mexico. But she never made a complete break. Shortly before his death at 82 in 1946, Stieglitz attended a Museum of Modern Art show and sent a love letter: "Incredible Georgia -- and how beautiful your pictures are . . . Oh Georgia -- we are a team." And so they remain in the public imagination...
...work outlives the folly and redeems the sadness. Throughout the artist's long career, that was always the case. Every biography of O'Keeffe -- including this massive one -- is really an elaboration of the message she sent a student back in 1924: "Making your unknown known is the important thing -- and keeping the unknown always beyond you. Catching, crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life -- only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead -- that you must always keep working to grasp...
...slave quarters vanished long ago. The blackened chimney of the plantation house still stands in the wooded farm country of Prince Edward County, 60 miles southwest of Richmond. Vanessa Venable's ancestors, who were slaves there, dug the clay that made the bricks...
...repair the damage. Vanessa Venable remembers a 13-year-old girl standing at a blackboard. She was asked to add 34 and 26. She began to weep uncontrollably. She did not even know how to write a number. So she and Mrs. Venable stood at the blackboard for long minutes, crying hopelessly together...