Word: nashe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Somerset Maugham. --Ogden Nash...
...case in point is Sculptor David Nash, whose work belongs in the general category of land art but is infused by a wit and sweetness usually absent from that genre. Nash lives in what must be the most sodden provincial seclusion the British Isles can offer-the Welsh village of Blaenau Ffestiniog, near which, 40 years ago, the National Gallery secreted its paintings to save them from the blitz. Nash assembles his sculptures from rough tree branches, trunks and slate. His projects include a sculpture of growing trees, topiarized into the form of a dome, a sylvan abstraction that will...
...machined exactness, Keith Milow's sculpture is a far cry from Nash's split logs. Milow takes "monumental" forms-crosses or cenotaphs, those blockish memorials to the war dead that one sees in every English town-and removes religious or commemorative use, leaving an abstract residue. The crosses are worked up with cuts, angles and elegant inflections of thickness. The cenotaphs stick out horizontally from the wall, very much like the "architectons," the suprematist sculptural fantasies designed by the Russian Kasimir Malevich 60 years ago. Indeed, the spirit of Russian constructivism-spare, idealizing, but wedded to primary forms...
...James Nash, spokesman for the Massachusetts Council of Churches, said his Protestant organization had not taken a formal position on the latest school prayer law but had opposed similar measures in the past. He said he personally found the measure "distasteful...
...even some of the most cynical press-plane veterans expressed surprise at how friendly they found the home folks. In Ames (pop. 44,000), a West German television documentary crew was awarded the keys to the city. In Harlan, TIME Correspondent Madeleine Nash was quietly observing a precinct caucus when somebody announced her presence to the audience, which applauded warmly. Occasional requests for off-the-record or deep-background treatment notwithstanding, most Iowans seemed to be eager interview subjects. Says David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register: "People are civil here. If someone comes up and talks...