Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject matter of the paintings is usually fairly unimportant. Sometimes, however, the titles of the works give away Davis's intent and lead the viewer to play a guessing game to figure out how the abstractions represent what the title suggests. For instance, the mural Davis did for a studio in the Municipal Broadcasting Company looks at first like nothing more than a busy arrangement of abstract designs and bright colors. But, with a little imagination the viewer can make out forms that suggest radio towers, musical instruments and sound waves, and pretty soon, the whole painting begins to pulse...
...same flaw as do the fictions that have slunk out from under Harold Robbins' overcoat in recent years: what might be called the substitution of analogy for insight. In other words, the writers who create them seem to think it is enough to show us characters who, they suggest with a wink (or more often a brutal slam in the ribs), are just like the famous people we are always reading about in the press. Whereupon they offer some Psych. 101 explanation for their characters' behavior and go off thinking that with this primitive bit of mimesis they...
...Sullivan principles suggest several progressive employment and social policies for U.S. firms in South Africa...
There are times when Joffe sees himself as "manic, troubled, confused" and isn't sure exactly why Various people along the way have tried to suggest to him that his problems, his continuing confusion and uncertainty, are the result of his early Sha Na Na success and the way that it delayed traditional adolescent insecurities about adapting and conforming, about adjusting and pursuing a career. But Joffe never felt that that analysis rang true...
...want to catch Kern one more time before he disappears forever, I suggest you hurry-up-and-buy-tickets to the Elvis Costello/Nick Lowe/Mink DeVille concert, which will be at the Orpheum on May 4. I'll be there, as will be 2000 other smart people, including Kern (who wasn't at the Patti Smith/Ian Dury concert, and boy was that a mistake...