Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Stella is 51 this year, too old to be a prodigy but still young for an artist, and his second retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City -- consisting of work done since 1970, the year of his first one -- has just opened. He is one of the very few American artists to get this double crown in their lifetime, thanks to the enthusiasm with which William Rubin, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture, views his work. It is hardly an exaggeration that MOMA treats Stella as Jackson Pollock's true dauphin in the lineage...
...broomsticks, we don't drink blood," Floyd sighs. "Modern witches use cars...
This is also one of the founding beliefs of Wicca. The modern witch sees the year as a great wheel, with a cycle of eight festivals that fall on the solstices, the equinoxes, and certain points at the heights of seasons. Samhain or the Hallows is still the most important one, the New Year celebration of the pagan cycle...
...Modern Day Witches...
...modern-day witches say that regardless of this, most people still see them as evil. Within the witch community, there is a great deal of apprehension about the image of modern-day witches. People have such strong preconceptions about what witches are that they rarely listen to the facts. People have thrown bricks through the windows of Arsenic and Old Lace because they thought it a hangout for Satan-worshippers, Floyd says...