Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cubist paintings. Picasso treated African art as raw material and cared nothing about its tribal contexts or religious meanings. As far as he, Matisse and Braque were concerned, it was made by savages: the masks and carvings were emblems of ferocity, a thrilling rupture in the smooth herd of French metaphor painting. Seventy years later, for an artist to use African art in that way could only be racist condescension, or airport art, or both. So the problem for an artist who wants to connect his or her sense of black identity with the legacy of modernism...
...next piece, "A Cruise to the Moon," develops this line of thinking still further. Lunch has fused a smooth, swinging piece reminiscent of Duke Ellington's prime with a completely separate bit of raunch straight out of Teenage Jesus. She makes it all work by brilliantly counterpointing the two. The two factions alternate between dive-bomb runs and frenetic soloing. They both compete for our affections, and we are propelled by the sheer audacity and exuberance...
...better pensions for their 250,000 retirees. Equally important is preserving jobs; in the past 20 years, more than 100,000 jobs have been lost because of plant shutdowns. Thus the union does not appear to be in a demanding mood, and bargaining is expected to reach a reasonably smooth conclusion by the April 15 deadline. Even if talks break down, there will be no strike; disagreements will be settled by binding arbitration. Says one high union official: "We have no illusions. The owners are not going to keep a steel mill open if it is not making money...
Thus it might have come as something of a jolt for the Atlantic's readers to learn that their august, old-Boston publication will soon be in the hands of a smooth non-Yankee who has made millions in real estate development. By May, after a few minor details are worked out, Mortimer Zuckerman, 42, will take over as president and chairman of the Atlantic Company, which includes the magazine and its book publishing division, the Atlantic Monthly Press.* Says he: "I hope to combine the magazine's very special place in American letters with a solid financial...
...close to accounting for the scope of Reagan's unexpected victory. He won mostly by being himself: the old actor who excited so many Republicans in 1976; the propounder of unqualified conservative answers to the most fearsomely complex problems; the deliverer of the harshest barbs in a voice of smooth geniality. Even though the voters of New Hampshire are scarcely representative of the U.S. electorate, the fact that he turned them on once again last week focuses new attention on that puzzling and enduring phenomenon of Republican politics, Ronald Wilson Reagan...