Word: restlessness
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...beneficiary of the belief that the language of painting and sculpture really mattered to people other than their devotees. And he was the first artist to enjoy the obsessive attention of mass media. He stood at the intersection of these two worlds. If that had not been so, his restless changes of style, his constant pushing of the envelope, would not have created such controversy--and thus such celebrity...
...20th century saw more restless experimentation with style and content in art than any other in history. Never before had there been so many ideas about what art could be or how it could be made; never had new art been the subject of such impassioned controversy or reached so large an audience. Museums, especially in the U.S., had to embrace newness or look retro. The century didn't see the birth of the avant-garde--that had happened earlier--but it did bring its death, after experiment and eccentricity became the norm. Inevitably, all that had seemed startling...
...80th-birthday celebration was televised. His wife Barbara stayed close. Friends and luminaries from across the generations paid their respects. Bruce Springsteen showed up, singing Angel Eyes as one Jersey boy to another. Bob Dylan performed his own song, Restless Farewell, and said, looking down from the stage at Sinatra, "Happy birthday, Mr. Frank." It was homage of a high order. The room was heavy with talent that night, but Sinatra contented himself with showing his appreciation by applauding them all. Not so many years before, he would have led them. Showed them all how the Chairman does...
...York"). Last year Weakland underwent treatment for prostate cancer. But he is back in combative form, penning a preview of his ad limina thoughts for the Jesuit magazine America. He feels that U.S. Catholicism, 60 million members strong, is in danger of a split. At one extreme, he discerns "restless innovators" whose liberal "sloganeering" he finds ineffective; at the other "Papal maximalists" who have prospered under the current papacy but "sensing victory, [have become] even more judgmental and vicious." The vast, threatened "middle ground" is proud of the Pope but ignorant of his writings, defiant of his sexuality rulings...
...filed abuse claims. If she was ever bruised, he says, it was from one of the several plastic surgeries she underwent to feed her vanity and draw ogles at the tony Main Line gym where she worked out almost daily, a spandex emporium for the young and the restless. He can give you the dates too, for the nose job, the eye job, the breast job, the chemical peels...