Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, adoration of art knows no bounds. He has put Marc Chagall's lovers on the ceiling of the Paris Opéra, Maillol bronzes in the Tuileries gardens, Masson's abstracts in the dome of the Comédie Française. He has washed the face of Paris from a dingy grey to honey-colored sandstone, and his art history, Voices of Silence, was a monument to a world he saw as "a museum without walls...
...President since the military toppled Leftist Juan Bosch in 1963. "I have not come here to put on the uniform and boots of Trujillo," President Joaquín Balaguer told his inauguration audience. "I have come to make an attempt - a new at tempt - to make these symbols of op pression disappear from the life of the Dominican people...
...since taken up permanent residence in the ghetto world of detective fiction, but none of Hammett's many imitators ranks lower than Mickey Spillane. Anyone who bothers to measure Spillane's latest Tiger Mann mystery against this posthumous collection of Hammett's Continental Op stories, first published in the '20s in Black Mask magazine, will instantly...
Hammett could write. Into his bony prose went the conscientious effort of the craftsman whose best work escaped the literary basement where most mystery books belong. His Continental Op (for operative), based on the author's own experience as a Pinkerton detective, is authentically tough. All mystery stories are implausible, and so are Hammett's. But in his case the reader accepts their implausibility because the characters, particularly the Op himself-a fat, stubby, middle-aged man who never got a name and needed none, being an archetype-seem so real. "He put these people down on paper...
...picking Le Pare, the jury fulfilled a need for art to outpace popular appreciation. Pop itself, restricted to the sophisticated scavenger's delight, or the satirist's mocking image, has grown familiar and static. Op and kinetic art, like that of Le Fare's, are less human because they are less dependent on whim and whimsy. In the ephemeral flow of contemporary styles, this art chitters and clatters on ahead like a mechanical rabbit with transistorized circuits...