Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure sense of urban life and involvements, of apartments so tiny that even ideas have to enter single file; of affairs that begin and end on chance remarks; of yearnings for culture buried deep within the city's most anonymous dwellers. But these virtues are nearly undone by relentless mannerisms. Whenever Everett reaches an impasse, he conveniently has a dream, recollected in detail that Freud would admire. Attempts at plain speaking frequently result in a piling on of cliches: Everett knows an object "like the back of his hand"; women have "impenetrable" eyes. Exclamation points detonate with the flatness...
...intentions remain obscure. Leslie Glass writes dialogue as absurd as a cross between lonesco and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," but the one-liners and hilarious situations lead nowhere. As a satire on the American family, the play never succeeds on the level of Albee's American Dream although the relentless reinforcement of American stereotypes leads us to expect as much. But for black comedy Strokes can't be beaten...
...issuing them as posters at $100 a set ($200 signed). The pictures will be reintroduced next month at Artexpo NY in Manhattan. For Avedon, the memory of photographing a legend was never lost, however. "We worked only at night for over a month," he recalls. "She was relentless and always beyond my imagination...
Liebert two years ago conducted "a rather through exploration" of Lang's background in preparing a book review and came away fascinated by the mathematician's brilliance and his "reputation as a gadfly and a provocateur." Liebert and others describe Lang as a fiercely determined, sincere and relentless advocate of political issues in the academic world, who forces his adversaries to address complex problems with unbroken logic...
...National City ($6.6 billion) announced plans to merge with Columbus' BancOhio ($6 billion). Indus try Analyst James Wooden of Merrill Lynch estimates that by 1995 the U.S. will have only 25 to 35 national banking organizations. Citicorp, BankAmerica and the other leading financial-center banks remain relentless in their determination to knock down the remaining roadblocks to expansion across state lines. The financial giants sometimes lose a round or two, but they always fight back...