Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Klein also took to plunging in among crowds to shoot point blank, so that faces meet the lens with mostly tentative expressions. As Manet had done a century earlier in his paintings, Klein recognized in the suspended gaze one of the chief signifiers of the modern temper. But judged by the canons of good photography, those pictures looked fumbled, invertebrate. Klein's anarchic strengths went unappreciated by eyes looking for nice tonal gradations and the standard ironies. Where were the compositional ligaments that held even the airiest Andre Kertesz photo in an iron fist? Where was the fine printing...
...OEDIPUS complex. Dad's piling on perfectionist pressure, throwing temper tantrums--maybe smacking up Mom a bit. Monday Night Football's making him increasingly violent and you think maybe it's time for a family counselor. But before you start bitching, maybe you should ask yourself this basic question: how many families has Dad butchered...
...White House the issue may be whether the Administration's latest package will prevail in the face of rising congressional impatience. Outside political circles, however, a number of economic experts have another concern: that in its commendable efforts to temper protectionism on Capitol Hill, the Administration is being forced to strike worrisome compromises with some of its free-trade principles...
This suits the curatorial temper of the Met's 20th century department very well. Its stress lies on connoisseurship and comparison, rather than on telling the whole story of 20th century art. The Met's modern collection is not equal to that task anyway. Apart from decorative arts and furniture, it consists of some 6,000 works and is smaller than the Whitney's; it hardly begins to compare in scope and depth with MOMA's 65,000 objects...
...American business had better deliver the real thing, because shoppers like Arlene Cantlon of Riverdale, Ill., are starting to make a scene. Cantlon lost her temper recently in a Venture Stores discount outlet because the chain was making a habit, in her opinion, of failing to have advertised goods in stock. "I asked to speak to the salesgirl in the shoe department, but nobody knew where she was. I waited 35 minutes while they looked for her. Nobody could find her, so I asked to see the store manager. At this point, I had a crowd of customers cheering...