Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elizabeth Beach Mont rose...
...first impression is of peach-fuzz abstract expressionism-big, suave, one-color surfaces. But the sunset colors -mauve, rose, gray and a rich ecclesiastical red-are neatly tuned by Dine's drawing, which gives exactly the right definition to the edge of a sleeve, the correct visual weight to the shadow in a fold. It is beaux-arts drawing applied with a kind of gentle irony to the ma trix of abstract-expressionist style. Dine's older paintings of robes in the '60s were done with acrylic and house paint; they had the "industrial" look common...
...Compleat Birdman wittily analyzes the unearthly urge that inspired biblical figures, Leonardo da Vinci and just about everyone else who ever wanted to trade the land for the wind. Here is Simon Magus, an early Roman necromancer who rose skyward (possibly by means of a balloon) before a crowd that included St. Peter. To the relief of the early Christian spectators, Magus suffered an instant-and fatal-crash. Haining wistfully relates the tale of Bladud, a doomed 9th century British king, who borrowed a page from Greek mythologies and perished like Icarus with a pair of feather-and-wax wings...
...mass audience. Even back on Fire Island, where people usually take their hurricanes seriously, few people have read it. When I was quite a bit younger, "Thirty-eight" was a constant source of fascination for almost everyone in town. If you were among the younger set, your personal stock rose with your ability to tell hair-raising stories about what the Big Wind had done to your family's house. (I always came off the winner in contests like these, after repeating the probably apocryphal tale of how the storm wave lifted up our cottage and left it sitting right...
Although the value of the University's endowment rose to $1.42 billion in 1975-76 and the University as a whole had a $900,000 surplus, energy expenditures and operating costs continue to rise because of inflation, officials said this week...