Word: pallidity
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Rothenberg did her first horse, a pallid and watery sketch, in 1973, and it is hard nowadays to remember what an unyielding prejudice against any kind of hand-painted figuration existed in New York 20 years ago. Abstract art -- in particular its last whole-cloth style, Minimalism -- had done away with all that. It had also shaped artists' expectations about format: split and abutted canvases, "primary" X shapes, the whole pictorial rhetoric of the canvas as object...
Patriotism demands at least one more world-shaking, American-made trend. Surely the nation that invented goldfish swallowing and the leisure suit is not willing to exit the millennium watching reruns on Nick at Nite. Arise, ye pallid twentysomethings, and do something deeply silly...
...Buchanan, the pallid predecessor of Abraham Lincoln -- and the subject of Updike's novel-length play Buchanan Dying (1974)? "I love him," Clayton tells Genevieve. "He was scared of the world, Buchanan. He thought it was out to get him, and it was. He was right. He tried to keep peace." Clayton senses an affinity with the indecisive Buchanan because he too is trying to negotiate, without much success, between warring factions within himself: his passion for Genevieve and his guilt toward his discarded children. "I was a fervent supporter of marriage," he notes, "just not of my marriage...
...several-hundred-billion-dollar deficit," said Bush, "a piecemeal approach simply will not do the job." The bald hypocrisy of this gambit seemed lost on Bush, who not only has never submitted a balanced budget but who had not shown much interest in the amendment before last month. His pallid performance only added evidence that Bush defines leadership as imploring Congress to do something that he himself will...
...case, blacks found cold consolation in the idea that many whites also disagreed with the acquittal of the policemen. To them, the white disapproval was pallid and ineffectual and showed little real understanding of their emotions. "Police terrorism is a form of oppression that black people intimately understand, because we are the victims of it," says Steven Hawkins, an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York. "It is something that few whites understand, because they are typically not affected by it." Herman Collins, an unemployed 26-year-old black in Ohio, says more simply...