Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of delicate sewn constructions of silk, twine and rattan cane. They are without pretension, and hardly displace air at all. They read as a shimmer of color, sails in the light. Off the beach, past the rattling leaves of the sea grapes, two ambiguous planes meet: the shallow coastal water, slicked with weed, taking the light like satin; and the pale sky, colored the rinsed blue of a Tiepolo ceiling. A pelican lumbers by, just airborne, printing its ragged prehistoric silhouette on the fabric of the scene. Once again, as for the past two decades, Rauschenberg's art drains...
Theories of deterrence have some relevance to a small class of rational law breakers, and certain violent offenders do have to be isolated. Nonetheless, shallow conclusions will only lead to greater inequities, and increasingly prisons will become cosmetics merely hiding society's deeper flaws. A frightened, receptive audience and a poorly defined field have allowed this political scientist to become a sociology dilettante. But then, as H.L. Mencken explained, "A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas...
Secure Past. Like many older people awash in the shallow and intolerant present, Hough often finds himself on the defensive about the past. "I think I know of much that has been lost as I looked on," he remarks. "In New England there is hardly an alternative other than a furtive sense of having been conspired against, which, difficult of concealment, leads one's neighbors to say one has 'turned queer.' " Then he warns: "In age a man may become a stranger in his native land." He wonders, too, if the intense preoccupation with the future...
...Donnell forces strong themes in and out of his work: faith and delusion, guilt and innocence, words and meaning. His characters miss being drawn to proper proportions--they are unevenly constructed, sometimes deep and sometimes shallow to the point of being like the cartoons Tyler complains he comes out with. Especially fuzzy is his ill-defined creation of Missy, a thin, shadowy portrait of a girl...
...gangster and the whore coupling incessantly, in attitudes reminiscent of the delicate rough-and-tumble of erotic Japanese watercolors. The point of all this-that the full realization of passion is its own justification, that death is the ultimate orgasm-is too familiar to be outrageous and too shallow to matter...