Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unformed Keynes was no more at ease with himself than others were. His most serious homosexual attachment, to the painter Duncan Grant, caused him, in the end, profound confusion as well as pain. Furthermore, for all his Cambridge-debater disapproval of Christianity, he was, Skidelsky remarks, "close enough to the 'believing' generation to have a need for 'true beliefs...
...took World War I to bring Keynes to fulfillment. As an adviser in the Treasury, he began to develop Keynesian ideas--for example, that the "main use of gold reserves is to be used." The artist manque appeared. Keynes began to regard money the way a painter looks at his palette. Understanding that currency confronts human beings with two great alternatives--hoarding or gambling--the sometime player at Monte Carlo defined money as "that which one accepts only to get rid of it." He raised monetary theory to poetry when he described money as "a subtle device for linking...
...places only ticktock jokework on the stage. Worse, he creates situations of real pathos and then anesthetizes them. The matriarch is 80, unable to get around without a walker, unwilling to be left alone for an hour. By the play's end, this coarse, undereducated widow of a house painter has won the heart of a 98-year-old superstar artist (Stefan Schnabel) reminiscent of Marc Chagall and has thereby healed her ailments...
...cadet at Northwestern Preparatory School in Santa Barbara, was accused (along with a pal, who will be tried later) of the knife murder of a homeless man whom they found sleeping in a park one night last August. The schoolmates are charged with stabbing Michael Stephenson, an unemployed house painter, 17 times, then slashing his throat. It was the second murder of a homeless person in Santa Barbara in nine months. Kurtzman admitted the killing, but defended himself by explaining that he had been looking for gang members who had harassed some fellow students. At week's end the jury...
With this edict, Wilson sets in motion an exquisite comedy of errors. Clandestine meetings become necessary, with the following results: the painter, Timothy Lupton, falls in love with Maudie, while her mother decides that this dashed handsome young bohemian's attentions are directed at her. Added to this mix-up are cameo appearances by Victorian notables like Walter Pater, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope and Thomas Huxley. But beneath this sparkling surface roil undercurrents of genuine pain. Nettleship, a figure of fun in all his balding, pedantic outward manifestations, knows himself well enough to realize that he has botched his life...