Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Television has given an unsettling emphasis to a certain kind of publicity skill. George Washington would have made a dull TV performer. As the first effective television President, Kennedy proved how important it was to be fast on his feet. This helped to set a demanding new standard that elevates flash over sub stance. The effect of television - which in one year can make an unknown face tiresomely overfamiliar - has been to disqualify able but uncharismatic men, and to make others (Humphrey and Muskie come to mind) glib parodies of their once more impressive selves...
Strong skiing seems to be the style of the year. Sophomore slider Eric Jewett shows sharpening skill and should slip into the money if psyche doesn't shake his supple swerving. Unfortunately Saturday's syncopated serpentine sent the sinewy skiers into a spiralling spill...
...Atlantic. Nor does he slight the host of others who have mapped the ocean bottoms, peered into smoking volcanoes or attempted to drill through the earth's crust to the semimolten mantle that surrounds its liquid core. Along the way, Sullivan scatters suggestive pieces of evidence with a skill that would do credit to Agatha Christie. He points out that the ancestors of certain North American animals seem to have come to their new home from Asia, something they could not have done if an ocean barred their way. He reports that the sea floor is spreading constantly...
BADLANDS. The affectless, antiseptic world of two young killers delineated with hard skill by Director-Writer Terrence Malick. A chilly, forbidding work that catches currents of casual violence which seem typically American...
Many of the pieces in this exhibit were made at the artists' whim, outside of class, and the collection is lively and multiform. Occasionally someone seems to balk at imagination, although nobody is short on skill, and these pieces smack of exercises. A deftly penciled sketch in one corner, for example, depicts a male nude from the rear, familiarly postured with one hand on his hip and his body's weight shifted to one foot. A canvas in variegated blue with purplish undertones, of a bedroom swathed in yellow light, reflects the dappled brush-work and impressionistic style of Monet...