Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coordinate what they would tell the President. Then, joined by Duberstein, they went upstairs in the White House to the brightly colored West Sitting Room, which the Reagans use as a living room. James Baker opened by telling Reagan that the world seemed to be looking for some movement on the President's part, and the quickest way he could display leadership was by reaching a compromise with Congress on reducing the budget deficit. Everyone knew that would have to include a tax increase...
...painting, for its own survival, would have to take practical lessons from old masters like Rubens and Caravaggio; it must find an "independent pictorial space to establish its ties with the everyday space of perceived reality." This ran counter to the whole argument of American formalism -- and of the movement with which his early black, aluminum and copper stripes had been associated, minimalism -- which strove to isolate the space of pictures from that of the real world. The results were a set of brilliantly colored oblique reliefs, the Brazilian paintings of 1974-75, followed by the Exotic Birds...
...sense of the body. His way of doing this, in paintings from the Indian Birds series like Ram gangra, 1978, was to get rid of the solid back plane and replace it with a mesh support, so that the shapes seemed to hang in the air. The relatively sedate movement of form in Stella's earlier work became an agitated, dense array, and the vividness of color seemed to have gone over the edge of decorum: a demotic yawp of rose, cerise, blue, sulfur-yellow, greens and oranges, scribbled and slathered onto the baroque shapes of French curve and drafter...
Under terms laid down by a September 21 Council vote, Sullivan picked Moses from a list submitted by universities and private research labs. He chose Wise after rejecting two other nominations from the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research (CCRR), which leads the movement to restrict local animal research...
Chisholm also said that although the women's movement has progressed greatly in recent years, women must continue to work for change...