Word: singularability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Such close attention by a painter to one model over so long a period is a remarkable, if not singular, circumstance in the history of American art," writes John Wilmerding, deputy director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and author of "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures...
...similar division races, they all faced a singular moment of truth, when the Twins, Giants, Cardinals and Tigers looked the A's, Reds, Mets and Blue Jays square in the eyes. The Twins' and Giants' courses were set with August sweeps, while the Cardinals' and Tigers' seasons turned on a last out in New York and teetered on a final weekend in Detroit. Impeccable Tiger Pitcher Doyle Alexander (9-0) made sure the race would at least go the natural limit, if not to a 163rd game, while the Twins stood...
After centuries of hewing to tradition, followed by decades of Western | imitation, Japanese designers now feel free to create singular, exciting hybrids of East and West. The new architecture is ambitious and confident, with stars like Arata Isozaki getting international notice. Graphics aspire to art, interiors are rich with allusion, and never before has there been such ferment...
Against this background, the singular hubris of IBA was to try to have it both ways -- a large-scale building program like those of the '20s and '50s, but with the strong concern for tradition and diversity that has predominated in the late '70s and '80s. The ambitions were grand, in true German style, but not grandiose. Indeed, Kleihues himself has written that IBA is "ultimately doomed to fall short of the aims it has set itself." Yet those aims were liberating because they were antimonumental. Berlin has lived (and nearly died) through all the various 20th century dreams...
...their entirely self-referential culture, are pathetic in their impoverishment. To be sure, one of them, Matt, who is played with exemplary restraint by Keanu Reeves, does finally violate their conspiracy and makes a tentative connection with traditional morality. But by this time the cold of this brave and singular work has seeped into our bones. We know that Matt is the exception to a bleak and deeply disturbing vision of adolescent life...