Word: onward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...common American reflex goes. Indian art never shared it. The proof is India's most developed form of painting: the miniature. Commissioned by rajahs, Moguls and well-off merchants, bound in albums and luxuriously scrutinized, these tiny images were as important in the East -from the 16th century onward-as panel painting in the West. The spring exhibition at Manhattan's Asia House is "A Flower from Every Meadow," a selection of 86 Indian paintings ranging in date from about 1520 to 1900. Chosen and elegantly catalogued by Art Historian Stuart Carey Welch, the 86 miniatures from American...
...timid-or independent-souls who are still wondering whether to buy those "new" '40s-inspired clunky platform shoes, the question may soon be irrelevant. With its usual fickleness, fashion is already whizzing on. "Down from those three-inch platforms," say the heralds of chic, "and onward to something older!" For many designers and their customers, the In echo is of the '20 -not so much the roaring of the jazz babies in speakeasies as the tinkling of cocktail glasses on Long Island lawns and the rustle of silk against chiffon...
...Perkins, were rushed back to the U.S. immediately to see their mothers, who were critically ill. By midweek, the rest began flying home. The welcomes were short and emotional. At Virginia's Norfolk Naval Air Station, a crowd of several hundred people sang God Bless America! and Onward, Christian Soldiers as they waited in the wet night for Denton, Galanti and Navy Captain James A. Mulligan. "Hi, everybody," said Mulligan. "There's something great about kids waving American flags...
...mutters the ex-prisoner. Abandoning his pepup and soy derivative, he pushes onward to a record store. His favorites have quite literally passed on. Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix-all killed by various ODs. The Beatles? Fragmented. The unheard of Woodstock? While he was gone it was born, matured, grew senile and became a comic epitaph on an old emotion. Some stalwarts remain here too: Streisand, Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, The Stones. But who are the Partridge Family? Cheech and Chong? Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show...
...demonstrators who joined in increasingly militant antiwar actions from 1965 onward were only a portion of this number. Other Americans stayed at home in Dayton and Indianapolis, but doubts clawed at their idealized version of their nation and its government...