Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earl Peckham is the serious author of The Sorry Scheme of Things Entire and The Ghastly Dinner Party, "an unsparing delineation of the worm-eaten psyche of modern man as exemplified in the subcutaneous motivations propelling the social lives of urban people whose surfaces are rotten enough." Sorry Scheme sold three copies. Earl's girlfriend Poppy McCloud writes best-selling romances like Break Slowly, Dawn and commands $2 million advances. What do these vastly different writers have in common, besides a publisher named Dogwinkle? Well, there is sex, which the pun-loving Peter De Vries, 76, might call the great...
...unrest surrounding the sudden overthrow of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's regime in February has kept travelers away from Haiti, and last week the 89-year-old hotel closed its doors. All its furnishings are being put up for sale, but modern-day Haitians do not seem particularly interested in relics from a bygone era. The brightly painted wooden nameplates that identified the Anne Bancroft Suite and other celebrity rooms went for $4 each, and the famed mahogany bar remains unsold despite its modest asking price...
...Reagan who in 1983 labeled the Soviet Union the "focus of evil in the modern world" has held his rhetorical tongue firmly in check since then. The President who slapped sanctions on the Soviet Union in response to the imposition of martial law in Poland waited less than 24 hours after Daniloff was set free before announcing he would meet with Gorbachev in Reykjavik to ! talk about arms control...
Endgame, the new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), is an ironic tribute to modern art, and possibly its gravestone as well. Specifically, the ICA collection is a display of "reference and stimulation in recent painting and sculpture." The few artists represented in the panelled halls are working quite self-consciously, with pointed reference to works that have gone before...
Anderson says that after his junior year, "All I could look ahead to was my thesis and [the idea of doing] it made me tired. From over here I couldn't really see what China was all about." Anderson's thesis concerns modern Chinese art and he calls his year off "a spiritual consolidation of a lot of things." The Dunster resident says, "[The time off] changed my over all perspective on how my studying affects people over there. Meeting the contemporary artists and seeing the conditions they live under put the subject in context; it lent reality...