Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Hutchison enlisted in the small army of these diesel gypsies, sharing their home cooking and their raunchy exploits. Aside from engine trouble and the occasional stray bullet, his lively memoir records few acknowledgments of the 20th century. Ancient hostilities persist, and bribery remains endemic. Still, customs inspectors prefer modern baksheesh. At one checkpoint, the presentation of a girly magazine "got us all waved out of the compound without further hassle...
...great artist been more cavalierly treated by American museums than Georges Braque? Here is one of the great pioneers of modern painting: the man who, with Picasso, invented cubism; who then painted some of the most exquisitely felt and wrought pictures of our century; in whom the classicist, Cartesian strain in French painting came to a peak. Yet the last proper American survey of Braque (1882-1963) was almost 40 years ago. Since then there have been shows, very beautiful ones (how could they not be?), of this or that aspect of Braque. But the whole elephant? Never...
...Braque's cubism, the subject matter of Chardin -- a violin, a table, a pipe, a bottle, a printed page -- was born again into the fragmented world of the modern city, its silvery-brown light intact. The speckles in his cubist paintings became a fine-tuned vibrato, unlike the more assertive planes of his partner. This made coherent form melt more readily toward abstraction, which Braque did not want. Rather, as he put it, he wanted to "take the object and raise it high, very high...
...modern dancing is more your style, see the David Gorddon/Pick Up Company's post-modern performance Saturday at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. in Cambridge. The program includes a new piece commissioned by the Harvard Summer Dance Theater, and will include dancer Valda Setterfield. Performances tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 and $12. Telephone...
...suggestion was not received warmly. The Chamber is temporarily using the slogan of the Convention and Visitors Bureau: "Look at Atlanta Now." It emphasizes the contemporary partly because a remarkable number of visitors, presumably oblivious to the century of hustling that has gone into transforming Atlanta into a modern national city, persist in envisioning it as it existed in Margaret Mitchell's antebellum fantasies: they stand in the shadow of Atlanta's great office towers and ask to see Tara. "Look at Atlanta Now" may be replaced in time, but there are no obvious candidates. "The Business of America...