Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designer jeans of the art industry. Thus one tends to bring mingled curiosity and skepticism to the shows by German painters that have filled half a dozen Manhattan galleries in recent weeks. The neoexpressionists are presented as missionary confreres: burning with social idealism and certified angst, robed in rough paint (crudity equals sincerity) and the turgid hyperbole of German critics. Their work is meant to evoke the fervor and spiritual elevation of German art in the '20s-Nolde, Beckmann, Kirchner, Macke. If only it could! What we get, it turns out, is more art about art about art, another...
...occupational therapist in a rehabilitation center and frequently work with quadriplegics. I have taught those who are paralyzed to feed themselves, dress, shave, put on makeup, write, type, paint, cook, and do push ups in a wheelchair (to prevent bedsores...
...book of "begats," it would read that show biz begat show biz begat show biz. Narcissism can be a powerful intoxicant. It has fueled some remarkable musicals. Think of Gypsy and, more recently, A Chorus Line. Dreamgirls is not quite on that level. Its heart pumps more grease paint than blood. But it demonstrates that you've gotta have heart just to be in show biz. For every triumph savored, there is a numbing disaster, for every dream a nightmare; and the everlasting need is to go on striving, surviving, for that is the core of show...
...viewers to see how they are being fooled, to see the bamboozler bamboozled. Most of the products Horowitz tests pass with high marks-he estimates 75%-but the blood sport is watching the advertisers turn into bozos when Horowitz can't wipe the scrawl off the Sherwin-Williams paint job, when three dozen eggs (out of 14 dozen) don't survive a drive in a Renault and when eleven shoppers out of eleven pass over margarine for the high-priced spread...
Skillful manipulation by the Reagan administration is one reason. Its efforts to paint the insurgents as pro-Soviet, Cuban-sponsored Marxist-Leninists met with some success in the early months of 1981. The State Department White Paper of February 23, 1981, for example--an authoritative-sounding treatise based on a confusing and contradictory pile of "captured documents," for instance--went unchallenged by the press for almost three months until John Dinges of the tiny Pacific News Service published a masterful demolition of their content and conclusions. Though readers of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal had a chance...