Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began following her pointillist god Seuiat and the interpenetrating planes of Italian futurism. Now she lives in a bone-white flat with white-painted floors as stark as her work. She designs on graph paper, often resorts to math books for inspiration, turns the actual execution over to apparently myopic artisans to reproduce on canvas...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th St. More than 60 oils by Francis Bacon, the myopic English master of howling human agony. Yammering popes, chittering baboons, grotesque sides of beef hang alongside the visceral Three Studies for a Crucifixion. Through Jan. 12. Also on view: 20th century drawings by such masters as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Pollock, De Kooning, Motherwell, Tobey and others. Through...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th St. More than 60 oils by Francis Bacon, the myopic English master of howling, human agony. Yammering popes, chittering baboons, keening sides of beef hang alongside the terrifying visceral Three Studies for a Crucifixion. Through...
...author of The Wine Is Bitter demonstrates a good knowledge of Latin American history but here, again, his interpretation is disturbingly--and typically--myopic. He talks at length of the "Latin Republics," recognizing only their economic situation as being much different from our own. There is virtually no discussion of the fact that republicanism itself is different in Latin America...
Then began a prolonged display of myopic ineptitude on the part of Los Angeles officialdom. With the newspapers playing the story for laughs-it was a case of "abducktion," one paper said-the machinery of justice clanked ponderously into motion. Officials decided that Lopez and his friends would be tried on charges of theft. Lawyers solemnly prepared briefs, detectives determinedly interrogated witnesses. Until the very end, nobody in the city government who was involved in the case seemed capable of seeing that what was called for was not mechanical law enforcement but compassion and common sense...