Word: onwardness
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...spread out before her. The display re-creates the window of a "head shop" from the 1970s. What catches her attention isn't the array of marijuana pipes, rolling papers and bongs; like most American high schoolers nowadays, she's a veteran of drug-education classes from fifth grade onward and has seen it all before, in movies and in classroom programs. No, what interests her are the psychedelic posters pinned to the wall, great swirling designs in Day-Glo colors proclaiming PEACE and LOVE and the other phantasms of a bygone era. "These are kind of cool," she says...
...Four Mud and Madness: Onward to the Russian base at Khankala and into Grozny...
...what's the attraction? Part of it is nostalgia. "Sheepherding harks back to an age when life was less complicated," says Wienir. "There's that ancient sense of pastoral peacefulness." Harried aristocrats from Marie Antoinette onward have unwound by playing peasant, and in flush times the middle classes follow suit...
...light of the incredible possibility that the project holds, there is every reason to press onward. As for the danger of posting the sequences on the Web, such a risk is infinitely preferable to the danger of keeping such vital information as some sort of government secret...
...first installment of the retrospective, covering 1900 to 1950, was all about American artists striving to find their identity in the shadow of European masters--and finally making the leap with the figure-breaking canvases of Pollock. The sequel shows the rampantly imaginative shattering of that identity from Pollock onward, shuttling at high speed between the spiritually sublime and the subversively crude, with a whole lot of stops along...