Word: particular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cheerfully anarchic exuberance came as a revelation to the adolescents of the day, who proceeded to make an ideology and then a mass-market sensibility out of a certain high brattishness. Adolescent baby boomers were by turns passionate and sullen, angry at the world in general and grownups in particular, certain, above all, that they were uncompromised, pure. In the mid-'70s, as prosperity finally ebbed and a generalized post-Vietnam enervation set in, much of rock turned merely slick. But along came a fresh cohort of bratty youngsters convinced of their own exceptional purity, and so a dozen years...
...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...
...with much interest that i read Jack White's article on Nigerians' blighted hopes ((NIGERIA, Sept. 6)). In particular the reference to the U.S. government's ''quietly warning businessmen to beware of scams in which executives are lured to Nigeria . . . only to be kidnapped and held for ransom'' caught my attention. In fact, we would like our warnings to be much more public. Too many U.S. businesses and individuals have lost tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars, and at least one businessman has lost his life. Yet the volume and variety of these scams remain overwhelming...
...even among white women of her time. Her grandfather Edwin was an alternate delegate to the 1884 Republican Convention, as well as a teacher, journalist and entrepreneur. He spelled out the code of the emerging black bourgeoisie: ''To be the full equal of the white man, there are two particular things we need--education and wealth.'' For most of the Hornes, Buckley says, ''racism seemed the only bad fairy at the family party. One could imagine that if it were not for race . . . Edwin might have been President of the United States, or at least a Republican senator.'' Lena...