Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same way, Chia alludes to De Chirico (not the prewar master of strange, oneiric cityscapes, but the De Chirico of the 1930s, with his kitschy antique pretensions) and, more reconditely, to the paintings of De Chirico's brother, who took the name Alberto Savinio. With tongue in cheek, Chia has assembled a whole secondhand wardrobe of classical nostalgia: a painting like Figures with Flag and Flute, 1983, with its bearded sage listening to the pipings of a young musician amid the rubble of some temple, thus manages to be both knowing and undemanding. It evokes complicity; artist and viewer...
...waited for the attentions of a water a waiter. After, in the new College, lines formed in front of steam tables, where dinner was dished out service-style. "Fish or cut bait," a dean told Anton Myrer '47 upon his return. "We've got no time for that prewar folderol 'Fish or cut bait'. There were double-decker banks in the houses, chow lines, both lines at the Coop". The new Harvard bore only occasional resemblance to the old, great professors still trod the floor boards of Server and Emerson, but these stars (Perry Miller forcemeat among them) had only...
Thus ended the decisive battle of a gruesome war that has already cost the two adversaries an estimated 100,000 lives and $150 billion. But even though Iraq's forces have retreated almost to the prewar border (see map), the guns along the Shatt al Arab are not about to fall silent. Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, in pursuit of his vendetta against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has threatened to invade Iraq in an effort to topple...
Korda's hero commands respect, if not affection. He is a cunning, low-profile zillionaire named Paul Foster, who, as Paul Grünwald, member of one of prewar Hungary's richest families, survived the Holocaust. Grünwalds were not supposed to go to slave-labor camps. The family's Jewish bloodlines had been thinned by generations of intermarriage and Roman Catholic conversion. As leading bankers and industrialists, they had powerful friends, including Göring, through whom they sold uranium ore for Hitler's atomic-bomb research. But in the end the family...
...that he was right after all - as preludes to the end of history itself, the millennium. What distinguished him from other mystagogic nuts, however, was his talent as an artist. On the evidence of this show, he was far and away the most gifted painter of his generation in prewar Munich. Even his student drawings of the nude have a wiry and controlled strength in their ink-brushed line. Others might, and did, imitate Monet, or Beardsley, or Seurat, or the bright, flat patterns of "primitive" Austrian folk art; only Kandinsky could bring such diverse strands successfully together...