Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finds such highly publicized exhibits disturbing, arguing that they determine when particular artists are discussed. Following a recent Van Gogh exhibit, he says, "all of a sudden everyone was talking about Van Gogh. We're really being manipulated." In his opinion art should be viewed in a conscious and concentrated setting...
VOICE of America, Radio Marti, and the State Department are just a few of what the Administration regards as tools for pushing a particular ideological line in other nations. For democracy in this or any other country to survive, however, there must be an uninhibited flow of ideas to provide a basis for people to make decisions. Nonetheless, it is fast becoming true that the United States reports events the way they should be heard, pro-Administration, or not at all. And Americans deceive themselves in believing any foundation for democracy is thereby provided...
Every so often, it seems, an aggrieved composer emerges from obscurity to lay claim to a particular pop hit. More often than not, somebody is ready to believe him -- or afraid somebody else will. The melodic and rhythmic resemblance between a four-bar stretch of Jerry Herman's 1964 classic Hello Dolly ("Hello, Dolly, well, hello Dolly. It's so . . .") and Mack David's 1948 quotidian hit Sunflower ("She's a sunflower, she's my sunflower, and I . . .") cost Herman $250,000 when he indignantly settled out of court in 1966. Ten years later, former Beatle George Harrison was nicked...
Director Ivory has certainly filmed Maurice beautifully, handling the love scenes with particular grace. Throughout the film, he bathes the men in the most flattering of lights and colors, and thus ends up with homosexual love scenes that look completely natural if not especially erotic. While these moments seem perfectly frank--especially with more of the Room With A View-type naturalistic nudity--the actors also never muster any impressive degree of passion...
...particular strength of this album, though, is that its large cast of characters -- from the wronged women to the wrung-out Saturday-night cowboys; from the rich men to hardworking Bill Horton of Cautious Man, who has the words LOVE and FEAR tattooed, Night of the Hunter-style, on his hands -- can learn to live with because Springsteen can center the dignity in all their lives. It's his name on the album and on the writing credits, but now he seems to be singing their songs...