Word: milles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conversation Two: The surmountable Work Conversation. The two participants approach each other just like any run of the mill Harvard Conversation One, but without warning something goes horribly wrong and suddenly the interaction diverges radically...
...bard of the Beat Generation can still grind startling, creative, and provocative images from the grist mill of his modern America. A four-line poem entitled "Suprise Mind" reads...
Bonnard's light and Matisse's luxe, run through Greenberg's reduction mill and then filtered by Louis' own obsession with the ethereal, came out in a curiously attenuated form. But it supported -- and after Louis' death was in turn supported by -- the argument that after Pollock painting had only one way to go. No more figures, organic symbolism or utopian geometry; no more gestural surfaces, tonal structure or cubist layering of space. In future, art would hang onto the spread-out, expansive quality of Pollock's work while refreshing it with a new intensity of color, inspired by Matisse...
...surface eventually, and the Mets, with their penchant for drama, had simply waited until the last out of game six to show that they are the best team baseball has seen for along time. And the Sox proved once and for all that they are a run-of-the-mill squad that made it through the regular season and the league championship series on luck and luck alone...
...stream, unpainted, tiny amounts of autumn light filtering through the small openings in the side of the bridge. South Newfane seemed like the perfect setting for a bridge like this. Not a single house looked younger than 100 years old. Almost everything was painted white or red. An old mill stood by the side of the stream. It was a five minute drive off Route 30, along a winding road through the forest. The town had one road running through it, and the traffic stopped when we stopped...