Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dark side of human experience. Does the latter make him a less serious painter? Of course not, any more than it trivialized the work of that still underrated artist Raoul Dufy. At root, Hockney is popular because his work offers a window through which one's eye moves without strain or fuss into a wholly consistent world. That world has its cast of recurrent characters -- friends, lovers and family. Hockney's portraits of his parents, in particular, are full of unabashed filial devotion, and through repeated drawings and paintings he has given the portly form of his friend and promoter...
...biggest of the pieces, and Tucker's masterpiece so far, is Okeanos, 1987-88. It packs three layers of imagery into its mass without the slightest strain or theatricality. At first it is a great bowed head and shoulders, rearing up from the earth and leaning forward. Its immense back carries memories of Matisse's bronze backs, and its pose refers, distantly, to Brancusi's Mlle. Pogany. Then, from the side, one notices how it resembles a big wave about to topple -- the ocean over which the deity ruled. And finally, from the front, closer in, the deep pits...
...fall, 86 news organizations in 80 countries, ranging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, have participated. A segment from Uruguay's SAETA TV, for example, reported on Pope John Paul II's recent tour of four South American nations. The Icelandic Broadcasting Service examined the country's economic problems and the strain they were putting on Reykjavik's coalition government. Japan's TV Asahi aired a report on the stabbing of two children by a bicyclist in Tokyo. Betraying his Western bias, CNN Executive Producer Stuart Loory, formerly the cable network's Moscow bureau chief, admits he has been pleasantly surprised...
Foreign policy. The U.S. drug habit generates $2 billion in revenues for Latin American thugs. Crackdowns severely strain relations...
Sometimes there is so much sound that you have to strain to hear Prince's great electric guitar riffs. The overall effect is reminiscent of the Parade track, "Christopher Tracy's Parade," which was criticized for being too instrumentalized...