Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even the rebels, however, seem to suffer from a problem that handicapped their fathers: the inability to express opposition individually and in specific terms. A professor at Kyoto University recalled last week that when he invited individual students to challenge his statements or actions in the classroom, they would stand in tense and painful silence. When the students came to him in a group to scream their demands for reform, however, they were magically transformed. "Then," says the professor, "they would make no bones about calling me an idiot...
...witness was Petros Vlassis, a member of the far-left Lambrakis youth movement, one of the junta's special targets. After being beaten on the feet in the shower room on the roof of the Bouboulinas Street building where the tortures usually took place, he was forced to stand up. "They made me run around in a circle in that same torture chamber," recalled Vlassis. "They had moved the bench to one side a little, and I was in the middle of a circle made up of ten people. Each one of them held something-a stick, a metal...
...local cárcel for five hours. By coincidence or something, the date of the Mexico opening was the only one that was not determined by the company astrologer. All other openings have been determined by the stars and planets, and all were financial successes. Even history could not stand in the way of Astrologer Marya Crumere's choice of this week's opening date in Japan...
...monumental size of the paintings gives them inescapable presence. Once in the room, the viewer cannot change the channel-he must look. The power of an undiluted red surface with stripes of white on each end by Barnett Newman stretches beyond the viewer's field of vision if he stands close. To see the whole he must stand back. By their sheer size the paintings scream for recognition, protesting the decreasing space in an overpopulated world. At first the enormity of the entire 34-room exhibition dwarfs the viewer. Yet the dynamism of art makes him empathize with the heroic...
There are so few images of people beyond the vulgar shapes of Pop that every figure you come across prints its plaintive face on your mind. Hollowness emanating like artificial sunlight from the doll-like people-the works of Hopper stand out from among the abstract pieces with haunting truthfulness. The only lyrical references to humanity emerge from the brush strokes of De Kooning and Kline-figures of paint both suggested and dissolved by a network of strokes. But the viewer of the vast rooms of abstraction feels the constant stares of the paintings reaching beyond their frames, asking...