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...representation of foliage is so scientifically accurate that a botanist can distinguish different types of trees in his pictures. It is easy to imagine on a rock or log and painting every lead, stone, or cloud from observation. But it is also evident that many of his paintings sprang from his imagination or memory. The intensity of his colors and the drama of his lighting bring romance to his works. A single ray of sunshine creeps through overcast skies and highlights and heroicizes one aspect of the landscape. The wooded scenes are romantic to the extreme of fantasy, and could...
...trouble also are smaller, fare-cutting lines that either sprang up or grew rapidly after Congress passed the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 to improve competition. New York Air lost $11.6 million last year. Passenger traffic was so slow at La Guardia Airport that "you could roll a bowling ball through the terminal without hitting anybody," said one airline official. Air New England shut down in October, throwing 400 people out of work. Daniel May, president of Minneapolis-based Republic Airlines, whose pilots and flight attendants have been asked to defer part of their pay to cut costs, cited some...
Mailer's principle-art should redeem or rather, more important, exculpate the artist-reached its full blossom as a tenet of Romanticism. The artist, for centuries regarded as merely a liveried servant of church and aristocracy, sprang up out of the bourgeoisie in the early 19th century as a dashing hierophant whose work connected him to the divine. It excused everything, from rudeness to homicide. "The fact of a man's being a poisoner," proclaimed Oscar Wilde, "is nothing against his prose...
...from which the Beatles appropriately sprang) were an era of fine, ripe exaggeration-all of that bright, angry, lulu rhetoric parading in costume across the counterculture and the war zone,en route to conciouseness III. America was amerika. the young were "freaks", the police were "pigs" a hundred different chemical substances were on hand to perform radical exaggerations in the brain. The 80's seem to be taking a preppier line with reality; certain voices run to understatement now. Still, a great deal of exaggeration has been built into the culture and, of course, the traditional home of exaggeration...
...Tribe offense, limited to five first downs and 13 yards rushing in the first half, sprang to life after intermission. Aided by two big penalties on the usually law-abiding Crimson defense (a pass-interference penalty for an 18-yard gain and a key offsides infraction that transformed a third-and-six on the Crimson 20 into a gimme third-and-one), Garrity directed the Tribe to an 80-yard scoring drive that cut the margin to two points at 9:11 of the third quarter...