Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Granted, it was no match for Sol's Delicatessen, but how can you say no to fried chicken, roast beef sandwiches, apple pie and kosher dills. OK, I admit it, there was some hard stuff there too, but I hold my cider and vodka well, and besides, I didn't drive home for at least four hours...
...Heady stuff, but American transcendentalism was persistent and-so the exhibition argues-it survived the impact of modernism. The authority of the landscape remained, as did the artists' meditations on primitive nature and the origins of consciousness. Reams of exegesis have been devoted to the numinous imagery of Mark Rothko's paintings, with their feathery bars and rectangles of hovering light. The vital text, however, was unwittingly furnished by a popular American preacher in the 1920s, when asked to describe his vision of God. "I see him," said the evangelist, "as a sort of oblong blur...
...which she once did for 50 consecutive hours.) Sometimes when she feels the need to socialize, she goes out into the courtyard to look for lit rooms, and knocks on doors there until wee hours of the morning. Occasionally, Nancy goes to bars, "but that," she sneers, "is kids' stuff...
...Dorian Gray," Conrad said. "The face is still beautiful, but what's gone on inside the body? The kidney punches. Shots to the liver. That stuff, and time, have taken a toll. It just doesn't show on the champion's face...
...captures the hearts of Americans from the period of optimistic hope in April through the scorching dog days of July and August, before climaxing gloriously in early autumn. At Fenway, the golden game of summer is played as it should be played--on grass (not the awful synthetic stuff), in a hard-nosed style, and, despite the presence of the new electronic scoreboard, without a lot of gimmicks or fanfare...