Word: singular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Community as a political force. He wears an orange button identifying him as a member of the United Urban Party ("We are the Balance of Power"). He explains: "It's a small group based here in New York which is committed to unifying the Black peoples into a singular, powerful voice to demand improvement in places like the South Bronx. We've heard all the promises. We need action." Her refuses to be more specific about the size or activity of his organization, adding only that, "we are the descendants of slaves who think it is time to unburden...
Bishop's singular wartime career forms the subject of a one-man show starring Canadian Actor Eric Peterson at off-Broadway's Theater De Lys. "One-man show" is scarcely precise, for Peterson plays 16 characters in addition to Bishop. He is immeasurably aided by John Gray's work at the piano; music underscores the evening. Early on, the songs have bravado: "We were off to fight the Hun . . ./ And it looked like lots of fun," but they end somberly: "We were daring young men with hearts of gold/ And most of us never...
Excerpt "Once in a while an adult said, 'Your grandfather built the railroad.' (Or 'Your grandfathers built the railroad. Plural and singular are by context.) We children believed that it was that very railroad, those trains, those tracks running past our house; our own giant grandfather had set those very logs into the ground, poured the iron for those very spikes with the big heads and pounded them until the heads spread like that, mere nails to him. He had built the railroad so that trains would thunder over us, on a street that inclined toward...
Such record-setting news scratches up a brief twitch of public interest and a flurry of deserved hurrahs. Yet the tidings of singular achievement seem less and less to arouse genuine excitement. New records come along so frequently, and in so many categories, that it is impossible to work up the appropriate celebratory mood for every one of them. The exceptional is in danger of becoming commonplace...
Dubbed the "poet's painter," Frankenthaler has been one of the leading figures in the second generation of abstract expressionist artists. Her "bleeding edge" techniques and pale, free-flowing colors have earned her a reputation as a constantly improvising but singular voice in modern art. "Her paintings have the quality of some delicate, nameless organism, which opens and closes almost imperceptibly beneath our gaze," one critic wrote...