Word: nick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that remark: the colors he uses- red, green, yellow, blue, plus black and white - are more object than atmosphere. Their presence is dense, their shape irrevocable. This, coupled with the extreme deliberation with which he shaves his contours, makes for very responsible painting. The weight of each decision, every nick and turn of shape, comes to resemble a moral choice. And so Kelly comes out of this show as one of the few artists in America to preserve, almost as subject matter, the seriousness of painting: the conviction that, despite all the trivialization it has undergone, art really matters...
...Mark Wheeler. To replace these two, Restic has five reliable, if not spectacular, performers to choose from. Juniors Alky Tsitsos, Ed Cronin, and Steve Dart, and sophomores Burrelle Duvauchelle and Al Yates are all cut from approximately the same mold. All the halfback candidates are good blockers, but since Nick Leone's decision to drop out of football to devote his time to track, none of the Crimson backs has better than average speed...
...Harry Parker's den of masculinity, reaching parity from the pure sweat and anguish of eleven months of looking at the same back and tugging the same oar, braving New England winter temperature an July humidity in an inexorable quest for Moscow. Radcliffe crew, which attained Moscow in the nick of time, finishing up one season a month before the next would begin, closing out success after success with the satisfaction of knowing that despite the disparaging commentary over the course of nearly a year of effort and hope, that Radcliffe is the crew story for 1973. Radcliffe crew...
...Nick Jones, an official of the Boston office of the UFW, told last night's meeting that the boycott, coordinated with the California strike, will force the growers to deal with...
...Watergate is not a significant defeat," he wrote in his second column, "but it was developing into one, and the President moved in the nick of time." This early misjudgment launched Safire on a string of lurches and pratfalls as the Watergate story dragged him steadily downhill. There was Safire listening to his mother defend the President's integrity while she dished up bowls of steaming chicken soup ("My God," said one Timesman opposed to Safire's hiring, "we've got a dozen better chicken-soup men"). There was Safire claiming ultimate victory for Nixon after John...