Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...righteous populist, Bonner offers up a capsule sketch of awf founder Russell Train's distinguished lineage that seems to suggest racism as an explanation for Train's fears that the Africanization of wildlife staffs would spell disaster for the game. Bonner recounts a litany of condescending comments made about the Third World by upper-class Brits, including slighting remarks made by Prince Philip, an early supporter of wwf. In his centrifugal anger, however, Bonner never connects these fusillades into a coherent argument...
...Broadway last week, as a poetic comment on the corrosive effects of professional failure on personal life, combined with a feminist fantasy of zipless fulfillment. Instead of an absurdist Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? her tale of two unhappy couples at a fiasco of a dinner party resembles sketch comedy -- wacky whimsies stitched together, abasing an able cast. The one memorable notion: an abundance of unwanted vegetables flourishing everywhere inside, not outside, a crumbling country house...
...former governor of Massachusetts and winner of the 1988 Democratic presidential primary gave an autobiographical sketch of his involvement is government and addressed questions concerning the beginning of a career in politics...
Rothenberg did her first horse, a pallid and watery sketch, in 1973, and it is hard nowadays to remember what an unyielding prejudice against any kind of hand-painted figuration existed in New York 20 years ago. Abstract art -- in particular its last whole-cloth style, Minimalism -- had done away with all that. It had also shaped artists' expectations about format: split and abutted canvases, "primary" X shapes, the whole pictorial rhetoric of the canvas as object...
...PRESENCE HAUNTED THE HALLS OF Congress last Wednesday night, it was not Kennedy or Roosevelt or any of the other 20th century Democrats who beckoned the citizenry to sacrifice. It was Ronald Reagan, the last leader to stand before the country and sketch a vision so dramatic. "Government is not the solution to our problems," Reagan said in 1981. "Government is the problem...