Word: particular
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...starting with recovery from an attack of typhoid fever coupled with a mild nervous breakdown. It is tempting to relate the extraordinary sharpness of focus, the dreamlike distinctness of Miro's early rural images to the fevered impressionability of a convalescent mind. The countryside in general, and Montroig in particular, would always exercise a peculiar fascination for Miro. The farm was the symbol of what Catalans call enyoranca -- a sort of global, unappeasable nostalgia, a longing for the past and for one's roots. Miro was set on going to Paris, knowing perfectly well -- as any young painter...
...produced a series of tiny oils on copper, such as Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement, 1935, in which grotesqueness and scatology collide with an enameler's decorative sense. The climax of Miro's talent for oscillating between the general and the particular was his series of 23 modestly sized paintings known, collectively, as the Constellations, most of which he painted in Mallorca, after fleeing from occupied France, in 1940-41. MOMA has managed to assemble all of them -- a real feat of curatorial borrowing power. The recurrent shapes in these are two black forms...
...sense that yellowness has so intensely taken over the day itself that it has taken over our verbs, too--yellowness has conquered our agency." It's like Woolf landed a 1080° at the X Games. (Wood knows how to boo, too, and he singles out one book in particular: Terrorist, by his colleague at the New Yorker, John Updike. You can picture Updike raising one of his long, feathery, white eyebrows in response...
...took a particular kind of character to walk into that environment and attempt to turn it around. It's hard to imagine anyone could have done it better than Tony Snow, who died July 12 at age 53 after a second battle with colon cancer...
Americans overwhelmingly support major government investments to create jobs that won't go offshore--public-works and energy-efficiency projects in particular. They favor new policies that reward hard work, including a boost in the minimum wage, employer-paid family leave and more available, affordable child care. They want new ways to save and invest...