Word: singularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khanh would oversee everything in the meantime, with one proviso: if at the end of 60 days "the chief executive still has the confidence of the government, he will go on with his work. Otherwise he will step down." But confidence in South Viet Nam is a singular commodity...
Throughout the fair, films are a basic denominator. In the United States pavilion, audiences are ridden past dozens of screens that light up consecutively with moments from American history. The narration is straight from This Is Your Life, styled in the second person singular, telling each and every American that you tamed the wilderness, then you invented the electric light, and you are now assaulting the universe...
What were the criteria of victory? All was explained on a yellowed sheet of parchment locked within the judges' envelope. Had contestants noted, for example, that "Chocolates," "Elsie," "Parietals," and "Joust" were grossly misspelled? Had they recognized that "Bacterium" is singular, whereas "Cocci" is plural...
...which is turning out many able young figurative artists (among others: John Paul Jones, Jane Wilson), Chicago-born Joyce Treiman (she rhymes it with Freeman) plunged into abstract expressionism six years ago but soon wearied of its "idealized anonymity." Suddenly, she says, she rediscovered "the particular human being, the singular gesture, the individual-not the hero." She started watching people, even hiring models to avoid painting cliche anatomy, sketching particular faces and gestures that, says she, "somehow find their way" into her pictures. But her figures in oils, including 22 paintings in a one-man show at Chicago...
...bronzes that prance, preen and posture with all the assurance of statuary weighing tons. By combining her small bronzes with her oils, she hopes to make a synthesis between the daydream illusion of oils and the rocky reality of sculpture. Like her oils, her metal figurines capture strikingly the singular event, the particular human being. "These for me," says Joyce Treiman, "are a summing up and a viva...