Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result is disastrous. The first story is insignificant and shallow. The second, trite. The third, unfulfilled. The fourth, pitiable...
What detains the eye in a Welliver is, in part, his assertion of "abstract" readings within a very forthright and apparently realistic transcription of raw nature. Typically, his spaces are shallow and entangled. You are on the forest floor, in a cavern of green and gray, gazing at an almost impenetrable screen of slender tree-trunks, fallen branches, brush, lichens and rocks. There is no horizon line to offer visual release: just more forest, dappled and blotched with light. The surface is not oppressively congested-for at his best, in paintings like Late Light, 1978, or Shadow, 1977, Welliver...
...journalists were the most self-critical. "We learn to be very quick and shallow experts," said Karen Elliott House, diplomatic correspondent for the Wall Street Journal Chuck Stone, senior editor of the Philadelphia daily News, agreed. "There is no such thing as objective journalism...
...user, was to testify last October in a trial arising from the theft of $100,000 worth of integrated electronic circuits in Santa Clara, Calif. The defendant was ultimately convicted, but without Roberts' help. One month before the trial, he was murdered execution-style and dumped in a shallow grave in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains...
...green scrim of nostalgia across such details, the necessary treacheries. One must give oneself over to the illusion, the precisions and geometries and statistics and characters and lore of the game. In his autocratic passion, Steinbrenner, alas, exaggerates the worst traits of modern baseball: its crassness and faithlessness and shallow nastiness. He will not collaborate in the illusion, a form of American mysticism, really, that is baseball's most precious accomplishment. George is a regular walking sermon on the pointlessness of everything once the joy has vanished...