Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone who works in a highly visible enterprise toils in the shadow of legends: a ballplayer in Yankee Stadium knows he is standing where Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio once played. A newly inaugurated President stands on the Capitol rostrum knowing his words will be measured against those of Lincoln, F.D.R., J.F.K...
...legislation, as he always does, that he wants to "see how it looks" on the Senate floor, he isn't talking about the shape of a specific bill as much as its whip count. He believes in what emerges from the day's horse trading; his vision is the shadow cast by compromise...
...conventional wisdom--advanced in several books and bolstered by Clinton's polls--is that liberalism is back. I doubt it. What is resurgent is not liberalism--a bold creed of government activism, long dead--but its shadow, a stealthy social parasitism that has just enough nerve left to force private enterprise, the golden goose of American prosperity, to do government's work...
Kienholz's best tableaus remind you what a long shadow Edward Hopper cast on American art. (It is a fair bet, though, that Hopper would have found Kienholz's raucousness and sexual satire detestable.) The Beanery, 1965, his famous reconstruction of a grungy West Hollywood bar--a little slice of hell, in fact, full of endless chatter, where all the clients' heads are clocks whose hands have stopped for eternity at 10 p.m.--has its affinities to Hopper's Nighthawks. Even the silver G.I.s in Kienholz's great antimilitarist piece, The Portable War Memorial, 1968, have a spectral Hopperish sadness...
...open capitalist regime, a successful free market economy and a democratic system guaranteeing people's rights and involvement in politics. Above all, shall we remember, this gap has been created in a mere span of 40 years, even less than one generation's lifetime! And yet, the dark shadow of a second Korean War, a disaster which could possibly wipe out the gap by just destroying everything, is always hanging over the peninsula like the sword of Damocles...