Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...junk under the eye of strict formal abstraction. One would expect the number of small pieces in this show to be, in the end, fatiguing; but it is not, thanks to Schwitters' dedication to reinventing a surface with each collage. His favorite matrix was the grid of cubism, a shallow, divided skin on which the scraps of paper and little objects surface and vanish, overlapping like leaves on a forest floor. He called them all "Merz" constructions: the name was a fragment of a printed phrase advertising the Kommerz-und Privat-Bank, but it became generic. In these works, cubist...
...original series' producers argue that the AIM program is a shallow and polemical response to an exhaustively researched work of scholarship. "If PBS feels that a reply to this series is appropriate, why does AIM get a monopoly?" asks Executive Producer Richard Ellison. "It's a precedent that I consider dangerous in and of itself, and also because it is part of a general atmosphere of pressure on the media from the right...
...When the Australian pine (Casuarina equisetifolia) gained a foothold in Florida around 1920, landscapers adopted it as a windbreak and hedge. Casuarina rapidly established itself at the edges of canal banks and natural waterways; along the southwest coast of the 1.5 million-acre Everglades National Park, the pine's shallow roots are now so dense that they are destroying the sandy beaches on which the threatened loggerhead sea turtle lays its eggs...
...Company of Wolves Jordan has wrought a veritable wonderland. The film is so visually sumptuous that, despite its shallow characterization and sometimes blatant psychologizing, it cannot fail to please the ethically inclined. It is a flawed cinematic gem but for all its cracks it gives a lovely light...
...quest for authenticity, Schwab is uncompromising in his attack on shallow Oriental exoticism. He reveals his anti-aesthetic bias against the French Romantics, toward whom his brilliant criticism is considerably less kind. He denounces their tendency toward "formal creation." The chapter, "An Extended Orient: Exoticism" criticizes at length the borrowing of imagery by the French as sheer indulgence. Gautier's Avatar is dismissed as the work of an exploitive dilettante with a "strikingly apparent gift for painting generalized pictures." Similarly, Hugo's Orientales is dismissed as "meager picturesque Orient imposed upon Montparnasse landscape...