Word: towers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mini-Anthology. Warren darkly foresees such art becoming ever more subversive in a brave new technology. Artists will be pariahs, ministering to the few who can recall the significance of democracy. This prediction smacks of the ivory tower. American artists have always felt more isolated than they really were. Though it has not always understood them, the U.S. middle class has in fact lionized its writers. As for American painters and sculptors, it is now impossible for them to épater les bourgeois. Today the bourgeoisie vie with each other for possession of the most avant-garde gesture. Given this...
...John Tower U.S. Senator, Texas Washington...
...Rights Act. He helped along Ford's policy interests on energy and taxes while the President was off in Helsinki. Rocky could claim an expanding group of friends on the Hill. There were even cordial relations, if not agreement, between himself and conservatives like Barry Goldwater and John Tower...
...almost become a symbol of all that Britain wants to stand for -something safe, sane, stable and as everlasting as the Tower of London," praised the Sunday Mirror. The tribute was just one of many inspired by the 75th birthday this week of Britain's Queen Mother, who endures as her country's beloved matriarch. Though she declined to appear for any television interviews, she willingly posed for an official birthday photo, and her royal family planned a black-tie dinner at Buckingham Palace complete with Scottish pipers, a three-tiered birthday cake and, rumor had it, some...
...almost too catalogued in the common memory. Take Guardi. The mind leaps to Venice's canals, but the show's Guardi is a fantastical landscape of writhing trees and magical boats. Boucher? Rather than playful nymphs and naked amoureuses, there are a phantasmagoric cottage and tower that the brothers Grimm might have imagined. And Ruisdael, that painter of flickering Dutch light, is represented by a picture of a dark swamp-a savage place that could well be haunted by some woman wailing for her demon lover...