Word: pleasingness
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A simple, pleasing arrangement of different aspects of Nolde's portraiture, in prints and out. The woodcuts, in particular, capture the essence of a character by their manner of execution, their style, alone.
His style is a blend of Gaelic eloquence, Harvard donnishness and American stump evangelism. In front of a microphone or over a dinner table, he can draw on a broad mental library of recondite words, literary and historical allusions and outlandish bits of jargon to taunt, flatter or flay adversaries...
But neither the event nor the man involved were accurately perceived by those who saw Pasolini as a radical Communist and a great poet, or who saw his murder as a martyrdom. Pasolini was not terribly progressive, as compared with other Italian Communist poets such as Elio Vittorini, or Cesare...
But Dallas comes to the Orange Bowl this weekend with a zany offense that could turn the game into a wild, crowd-pleasing Shootout. Says Cowboys Assistant Coach Mike Ditka: "We have a chance to make the Super Bowl do for football what last fall's World Series did...
Kupka's oeuvre remains in the suburbs of art. The paintings reflect the currents of the time; they imitate, sometimes innovate, but they lack that certain force of original expression. Kupka is unwilling to take his experiments with line, color or form all the way; he tends to eschew the...