Word: parrish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heroic abstraction, obsessed with the invocation of natural beauty. But scratch its agreeable surface, and there is flint below, and an unquenchable heat of pictorial intelligence. Or so one realizes, looking at the retrospective of Porter's work from the 1940s to his death in 1975, now at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York. Curated by the art historian William Agee, it is an excellent introduction to a still much underrated artist...
...embassy, discovered a large arms cache that included boxes of ammunition, heavy machine guns and a howitzer. They prepared to confiscate it when a Somali man stepped forward to argue that the building belonged to an Aidid ally. He demanded to speak to someone higher up. When Corporal Robert Parrish reached his platoon commander by radio, he was instructed, "Get in your vehicles, and leave the area." The astonished Marines left; the weapons stayed...