Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advisable when visiting the Morris Louis retrospective now on view at New York City's Museum of Modern Art to recall the claims made for this painter ten or 15 years ago. In such work, the art historian Michael Fried once wrote, "what is nakedly and explicitly at stake . . . is nothing less than the continued existence of painting as a high art." It contained "unimagined possibilities for the future of painting." One chews on this, moving from one sweetly august canvas to the next, enjoying the floods and diaphanous veils of color, the sheaves of burning stripes, the technical control...
...reviewer resorts to a list of persuasive reasons in order to convince. For those who read to escape a stifling environment, A Summons to Memphis explores the modern cities of Nashville and Memphis from the perspective of a relocated Tennessean in Manhattan. Taylor creates a dynamic representation of Southern society, a world that holds surprises and revelations even for a reader who grew up in such a climate...
...personal staffs have multiplied, district office operations have burgeoned, and members have expanded their personal presence in their districts. Providing assistance to constituents, interest groups and local government units in their dealings with the federal bureaucracy is a non-partisan, non-ideological and largely non-controversial activity that enables modern representatives to convert some who would otherwise oppose them on partisan or ideological grounds...
...eras. Consider that in the recession year of 1938 Roosevelt's Democrats lost 71 seats, in the recession year of 1958 Eisenhower's Republicans lost 48 seats, and in the recession year of 1982 Reagan's Republicans lost 26 seats. The five seat Republican loss of 1986 epitomizes the modern pattern of incumbent insulation. "All politics is local" exaggerates, but not much in the case of modern day House elections...
...races attract stronger challengers. Senators also are more newsworthy. Unlike representatives, they do not themselves provide the bulk of the information that constituents receive. Moreover, Senators are expected to maintain a higher profile on the great issues of the day. For all these reasons Senators face tougher elections than modern representatives...