Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final breakdown of the worlds comes in a violently sensual display of color. Audran, coming out into the open, crosses the barriers Chris has established between his lives, destroying forever his success as a hidden prime mover. The lush blues we identify with Christine and, we realize in retrospect, with the dead Paola, are disrupted by Audran's red dress, then by the blackness of the stocking with which Christine and the other girls are strangled. The violence of the deed is muted by the awesome lushness of the images, textures of decor which make murder a forbidden ritual...
...that Miró's 1925 The Birth of the World-is in many ways as significant a painting as Picasso's first major cubist painting, the 1907 Demoiselles d'Avignon. A subtly seething, 8-ft.-high panorama, The Birth of the World, says Rubin, is "in retrospect the point of departure in modern painting," making Miró "the major European progenitor of abstract expressionism." As is often true with Miró paintings, the title offers a clue. It is named for the way in which it was painted, for he re-enacted, so to speak, the first...
...those films, passion was expressed with a kiss or a cheek-to-cheek dance. Yet, in retrospect, they often seem sexier than some of today's celebrated shockers. What made Mae West's double-entendres titillating was that they really had double meanings; current cinematic sex jokes have but one unmistakable point...
...killing of Kennedy was horrifying in itself and forever haunting to all who had suffered through the earlier agony. Yet for all the pain and shame, in retrospect it could hardly be construed in itself as a new symptom of any intrinsically American malaise. "Violence," said Columbia University Sociologist Daniel Bell, "flows and ebbs, and I shy away from easy generalizations such as the country is sick...
...baseball title was believable as was, in retrospect, the tennis crown, but absolutely no one could picture the golf team as the best in the East. But on a rainy day in Princeton, N.J., paced by sophomore Yank Heisler, the golfers surprised the experts, not to mention Penn State and Princeton. Captain Bo Keefe and Bruce Lo-Pucki split the year at number one and Joe Tibbits (who lost a playoff for the Greater Boston individual title to Keefe), Jack Purdy, Tom Wynne and Paul Oldfield filled out the lineup. The golfers will compete in the NCAA's next week...