Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, there is an interesting give-and-take between Stella's recent paintings and his prints. They cannibalize one another, in a way. His latest series, the black-and-white "Swan Engravings," is printed from etched magnesium sheets that include the offcuts from his huge metal-relief paintings. Butted together like a big collage, these fragments-some ready etched with existing textures, others reworked-provide an inordinately rich field of arcs and patterns. The conjunction of Stella and his master printer Kenneth Tyler promises to change everyone's sense of what printing can do. -By Robert Hughes
...mind, it is purely as an illuminating contrast: in these movies, O'Toole played characters bigger than life; here, his tawdry character is so grandly portrayed that O'Toole becomes bigger than the rest of the film. Don't let the credits fool you--O'Toole takes a Swan dive but comes up playing nothing less than O'Toole. He still has that slightly pathetic, glassy-eyed stare that refuses to acknowledge the presence of either camera or audience. But this performance has a new focus. Rather than underscoring his decline by clinging to heroic roles (as Swann does...
...Cable was the most ambitious and prestigious of the cultural cable services in the U.S., competing for a small if generally affluent audience of arts aficionados. CBS offered TV dramas featuring Sir Ralph Richardson and Peter O'Toole; a Swan Lake starring Ballerina Natalia Makarova; modern dance choreographed by Twyla Tharp; and Leonard Bernstein conducting Beethoven symphonies. Defining culture broadly, CBS also ran a probing nightly interview series, Signature, and a multi-episode look at modern history narrated by CBS Evening News Commentator Bill Moyers. More than 60% of the shows were produced by CBS, at costs ranging from...
Meanwhile, the unit of the Fifth led by Brigadier Tony Wilson was moving south from the beachhead to Goose Green, and then east toward Port Stanley. At the minuscule settlement of Swan Inlet, 35 miles from the capital, Wilson suddenly had a time-saving idea. Learning that the Argentines had left telephone lines intact, he stopped at a house and phoned ahead to Fitzroy, the next sizable settlement. To Wilson's amazement, someone answered. "Any Argies there?" asked Wilson. "Yes," replied Farmer Ron Binnie, "but they're not here today." Said Wilson: "In that case, I think...
...Harper's Bazaar. The question, of course, is what prompted Brooke Shields to slip into a Geoffrey Beene tuxedo bathing suit? Come to think of it, who cares why she did it? Having turned 17 last week, Brooke, the lovely duckling, has clearly grown into a long, lean swan. Later this year she embarks on Sahara, another splendor-in-the-sand epic in which she will play, for the first time, a woman. In the film, Brooke winds up racing a 1928 Packard in a trans-Sahara race. Will she bring her black-tie bathing suit? That was just...