Word: thicke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Baselitz's art is the least "real" of the five: thick, ropy painting that takes a stand among images of the physical world but ends up looking quite unconcerned with them. He paints bathers, bottles or trees upside down, without offering a moment's access of feeling to this body, this vessel, this plant. His art is all generalization. Baselitz, 45, calls his subjects motifs, and that is what a motif is-a repeatable module on which an act of painting can be displayed. You take a motif and rough it up; then you take another motif...
...response to Kohl's references to eventual German reunification, Andropov warned that if the NATO missiles were deployed, the people of East and West Germany would have to "look at each other through a thick palisade of missiles." He said the military threat to West Germany would "grow manifold," implying that the Soviets would react to the Pershing II and cruise deployment by installing nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe. Said Andropov: "The Soviet Union finds it hard to understand what the Federal Republic hopes to gain from the deployment of American missiles, our measures in response and the saturation...
...palace, Kapuściński ventures outdoors to an area where dishwashers are throwing out leftovers from the banquet tables. A strange sound issues from the far side of the garbage dump. "I noticed that something was moving, shifting, murmuring, squishing, sighing, and smacking its lips . . . In the thick night, a crowd of barefoot beggars stood huddled together . . . I watched the crowd devour the scraps, bones, and fish heads with laborious concentration. In the meticulous absorption of this eating there was an almost violent biological abandon-the satisfaction of hunger in anxiety and ecstasy...
...succession of angles that, when the eye pushes through them, disclose more tangles beyond. The light is murky. Such color as is there is local-a flurry of pink, a sudden network of vermilion slashes. Otherwise it is all bog color, glazed browns reflecting other browns, dank mossy greens, thick in tone...
...cartoon character who has somehow aged into a carping Catskills comic; or a late-show pitchman, peddling Galactic Prophylactics and the Funeral in a Cab; or a suburban dandy, with attitudes and accent straight off the Main Line; or even an Irish priest, his brogue as thick as a County Clare mist...