Word: slow
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...formative early influence on him was the 1907 Cezanne retrospective in Paris. Cezanne's slow chewing at the motif, his persistence, his anxiety, his search for a sculptural grandeur in bodies and landscape (faceted on the surface, dense as limestone below) became, for Braque, a moral absolute. Cezanne's greatness lay in his "classical impersonality," opening a way to what Braque called the "total possession of things." A weakness of the Guggenheim show is that it contains none of the paintings from 1908-09 with which, at L'Estaque in the south and the village of La Roche-Guyon outside...
This sense of the surface and its continuity led to the decorative grandeur of his later still lifes. Braque loved "slow" surfaces, porous and mortared, the paint mixed with sand or sawdust. They had a solid, discreet material presence. They sucked the paint out of the brush and made fluent, wristy drawing impossible. Instead, all is deliberate plotting. You do not look through the paint but at it. Braque's determination to keep everything on the surface is the first thing that strikes you in the great still lifes and interiors of the 1940s and '50s, and it lends them...
...governments of Angola, Cuba and South Africa agreed to agree last week. If that sounds like slow progress, it is more than anyone expected when talks first convened...
...there were indications that many P.R.I. stalwarts intended to fight any attempt by Salinas to open the system to a vigorous exchange of ideas. Much like the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, Salinas knows that political liberalization is imperative if he is to succeed in restructuring a debt- ridden, slow-growth economy. But before Salinas can begin, he will have to convince Mexicans that the job is rightfully...
...Yuma prison for some middle-class sightseeing. Well-groomed tourists stare uncomfortably. Afterward, westbound freights are said to brake for a curve and easy boarding just past the Colorado River. Eight hours later, when the tourists are having dinner, the hobo-hobbyists are still waiting for a slow freight...