Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reflection. Kossoff, 61, is hardly known in America. He is one of the two English tortoises (the other being Frank Auerbach) who are crossing the finish line just when most of the short-winded art hyped in the 1980s has gone dead on its feet. Both are, so to speak, redemptive artists, sustaining and enlarging a tradition of the expressive human figure that seems largely to have been colonized by ham-fisted ephemerids. When neoexpressionism arrived in the early '80s, it was as though an army of Bronze Age hectors had assembled, chanting hoarsely of sex, anxiety, death and egotism...
...speak to Nikita Sergeyevich...
...identity, and together the details give the book a sort of magic realism. The details begin to separate themselves from the more powerful cultures that have transcribed them; the Khazar world acquires a fantastic character that distinguishes it from the Jewish, Moslem and Christian voices through which it must speak...
...form alone, The Dictionary of the Khazars is revolutionary. It entertains the reader while forcing him to concentrate intensely. In addition, Pavic tells an allegory about the contradictions in language. His Khazars, who aspired to speak their own language with a foreign accent and who deliberately chose translators who made mistakes in the Khazar language, are painfully aware of the limits and possibilities of communication across boundaries of culture, gender, time and religion...
...Mike Addesa: The highly-opinionated and large-framed coach of the RPI Engineers is never afraid to speak his mind. Last year, he earned the ECAC's Best Quote of the Year when asked about Harvard's standout defenseman Don Sweeney, now in the Boston Bruin organization...