Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fine journalists: John Skow's loving presentation of Russell Baker was rare and beautiful. Dorothy McCammon Goshen...
...American institutions took part in the production, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; this month the Chardin exhibition-shorn, alas, to 90 works-opened in Cleveland, before moving to Boston in the fall. It is a real event: the kind of show, rare today, that quietly assigns the Tuts and Pompeiis to the perspective of show-biz trivia in which they belong...
...fervor of this painting, almost literally an opposition of fire and ice, is comparatively rare in Chardin's output. Generally his still lifes declare themselves more slowly. One needs to savor the Jar of Apricots, for instance, before discovering its resonances, which are not only visual but tactile: how the tambour lid of the round box accords with the oval shape of the canvas itself and is echoed by the drumlike tightness of the paper tied over the apricot jar; how the horizontal axis of the table is played upon by the stuttering line of red-wineglass, fruit...
...years. This device gave the added ballast of history to Merrill's already established lyric and autobiographical skills; Ephraim's was the spirit of a number of ages, and he proved himself to be a talkative and entertaining tour guide. The imaginary collaboration yielded a poem of rare ambition and scope, a sinuous, sensuous meditation on death and timelessness...
Amid all this uncertainty, the Administration got a rare piece of good news on inflation. May's wholesale prices rose a modest .4%, vs. .9% in April, the smallest increase in nine months. The main reason: a drop in food prices, including beef, because of a decline in consumption. But food prices may resume their rise because crop-killing rains in the Midwest could tighten supplies of corn and wheat, and OPEC's continuing oil price rises will further fire up inflation...