Word: tobey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young women are acute observers--their very immaturity allows them to see and wonder at the contradictions other people are forced to live with. In the title story, for example, Louise--just released from a private mental institution--finds herself a boarder at the home of the middle-aged Tobeys. Dennis Tobey is a minor celebrity--a dancer now laid up with Hodgkins' disease, but still the subject of adoring paeans delivered by his well-meaning friends. One of these assures his wife, Maria, "He was certainly never boring," but she knows better...
...curious partnership. Pollock was the son of a Nevada rancher who had moved on to California. Lee's father was a Jewish emigrant from Poland who owned a food store in Brooklyn. Pollock sweated out lonely struggles with himself. Krasner was more suggestible. Sometimes her work echoed Mark Tobey, other times Mondrian, most often De Kooning...