Word: semis
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With more than 100 paintings, the show is a confirmation of Hartley's true achievement and abilities. In her text, Haskell argues that the major revelation is the all but forgotten series of semi-abstractions that Hartley painted in Germany between 1913 and 1915. She maintains that "these paintings were equal in achievement and sophistication to any work being done by the key figures of the European avant-garde." But to the less zealous eye, the show proves almost the reverse. Even Haskell concedes that well before he left for Europe, Hartley had developed a style that was distinctively...
...Henry Ford II last week, dinner at the Waldorf in New York City was a gathering of dear and near members of the clan. In company with his good friend Kathleen DuRoss, his daughter Anne Ford Uzielli and her statehouse steady, New York Governor Hugh Carey, the semi-retired automaker appeared at a banquet thrown by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to receive its first American Heritage Award in recognition of his years of civic service. After being praised by National Urban League President Vernon Jordan for his commitment to the ideal...
Riesman developed the popular Social Sciences 136, "Sociological Structures in America," which encouraged undergraduates to use the Boston community as an educational resources. Soc Sci 136 was discontinued five years ago with Riesman's semi-retirement...
Novelist Rogin is the managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, a magazine in which bright, brisk conflicts get resolved by the end of the fourth quarter. Albert's world is more bewildering, achingly inconclusive. He lives in a Greenwich Village brownstone, two flights up from lis "semi-ex-wife" Violet, who has resumed life with her first husband, a functioning dipso poet named Skippy Mountjoy. Albert drops by to walk their dachshund every day. His girlfriend is a youthful, frantically athletic woman whom he calls the Human Dynamo. She telephones lim at night from New Canaan, Conn., to wonder whether...
Until this year, the seventh game of the semi-finals was as close as the Islanders would come to Lord Stanley. In 1976 and 1977, they played well but lost two tense semi-final series to the awesome Montreal Canadiens. Then, in a bitter disappointment, a season that saw New York rise to the top of the Campbell Conference ended when Lanny McDonald of the Toronto Maple Leafs wristed a shot past Glenn Resch at 4:13 of sudden-death in the seventh and decisive game of the quarterfinals...