Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would, in certain ways, remain an abstract expressionist at heart, a painter who loved spontaneous gesture and the kind of unforeseen imagery that popped out of it. From the big red hand (of God?) that appears in Eden, 1956, to the shamelessly romantic sky space that hangs behind the lavender blobs of pigment in Sacrifice Decision, 1981, one sees traces of the surrealist ideas that had formed Pollock -- an openness to the kind of unsought private image that was generally barred from color-field painting. Frankenthaler disliked programs and was not a self-conscious avant-gardist...
...days before the attack, the government began to show its desperation. It organized antiliberal rallies that became unwitting parodies of the strident Red Guard style of the '60s. The authorities tried to rein in the press. Foreign correspondents were warned to stop covering student activities, but few reporters took heed. Chinese television ceased live coverage from Tiananmen Square and began carrying statements from leaders expressing support for martial law. "Nobody takes the news broadcasts seriously these days," said an office secretary. "They are all a sham...
SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...
...October, Harvard watched as it took only two sloppy snaps to give Cornell a 19-17 victory at The Stadium. By mid-November, the Big Red was 8-2 and Ivy champs. Harvard was 2-8 and sharing sixth place with Columbia...
...addition, offcials have been quoted as harshly and gratuitously condemining HRAAA and the organization's executive director, as well as the HRAAA candidates themselves. Associate Vice President for University Relations John P. Reardon '60, the new executive director of the Alumni Association, even stooped to red-baiting when he asked in a speech in February, "What's to keep them from nominating Fidel Castro next time...