Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adams' new eatery is well-lit, spacious, colorful and welcoming. The refrigerator doors are see-through, lending an air of modernist industrialism perfectly offset by the New England charm of the wooden-shelved cereal area. You almost feel like you're standing in Martha Stewart's enormous, immaculate country kitchen...
DIED. PAUL RUDOLPH, 78, one of the most influential proponents of American modernist architecture; of cancer caused by asbestos; in New York City. Rudolph's style--severe, monumental, concrete--symbolized established power in the '60s, becoming a catalyst for rebellions both political and artistic. His Art and Architecture Building at Yale (where he was chairman of the department of architecture) may have been set afire by protesters in 1969. His reputation, eclipsed by postmodernism, has received renewed interest in recent years...
...sharp-eyed character study and virtuoso acting class masquerading as a violent melodrama--he is played by Sylvester Stallone. This time Hollywood's longest lived action star is not battling Apollo Creed or the Vietnamese or a killer mountain, but his own rep as a stolid, vaguely comic, pre-Modernist hunk-lunk. Freddy is surrounded by guys who think they're men because they carry guns in the big city. But Sly is crowded too--by an intimidating gang of quality thesps, including Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta. They've been doing the heavy acting while...
Several government department sources have suggested that the theories followed by Berkowitz, who follows Straussian ideas (a relatively conservative version of political philosophy) and Honig, who is a post-modernist and feminist scholar, prejudiced members of the generally mainstream liberal department against their candidacies...
After Pop and side by side with it came impersonality--Minimalism, conceptual art and a vanguardist belief in the death of painting. But the artist who did most to break the mold of late-Modernist formalism in the '70s was a former Abstract Expressionist, Philip Guston (1913-80). His work over that decade redefined the terms of painting for a whole generation of young Americans, opening up the possibilities of the painted figure once more. In their time, Guston's paintings seemed like a kind of treason to the high-minded refusals of late Modernism, but therein lay their newness...