Word: smithson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mike Boddicker (1-0) blanked the Indians on two hits for five innings before giving way to Mike Smithson after a two-run homer by Joe Carter in the sixth. Smithson finished the game to pick up his second save...
...Norrington's vigorous hands, the result was a revelation. The Fantastique, premiered in 1830, just three years after the death of Beethoven, is an opium-tinged odyssey through the composer's psyche as he pursued his mad passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its restless opening, brilliant ballroom scene, desolate pastorale, terrifying march to the scaffold and cackling witches' sabbath bloomed anew, while the 1839 Romeo et Juliette, Shakespeare transformed into sound, burst with hot-blooded vitality...
...sculpture that was also a little building, like Alberto Giacometti's The Palace at 4 A.M., 1933, or a still life, like Henri Laurens's Dish with Grapes, 1918; an image of landscape, like David Smith's Australia, 1951, or for that matter a real landscape, like Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, 1970, a quarter-mile coil of rock now sunk in Utah's Great Salt Lake...
...Mike Smithson...
...questions posed by modern art, none are more intriguing than what it took, and why, from tribal culture. From Matisse structuring his Blue Nude of 1907 along the lines of African carving, to Robert Smithson emulating the vast projects of South American archaeology in his Spiral Jetty in Utah 63 years later, the list of "borrowings" is as long and as old as modernism itself. After 1850, the cultures of Africa and Oceania, dissolving under the acids of colonialism, released their myriad fragments-masks, figures, totems, bark cloths, tools, weapons, canoes, ceremonial furniture-into the absorptive West. After 1900, very...