Word: tuggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lying on our bellies near a water hole, waiting, when suddenly there they were -- a herd of seven elephants approaching the water hole. The little ones were frolicking and gamboling about, some of them locking their tusks and pressing their heads against each other in a kind of reverse tug-of-war. A pretty good-size bull noticed us. His ears flared in alarm, and he looked very menacing." Gup and Campbell tensed, but the bull did not charge them...
...styles incompletely, leaving the moviegoer wondering if something important was inadvertently left on the cutting room floor, Baker Boys still fits snugly into the escapist tradition of Tinseltown. The artistic commentary and other "Deep Inner Meanings" are introduced far too late to be developed well enough to tug at the viewer's mind...
...know that I will still feel a tug at my heart when I see the Redskins score, and of course I wouldn't dream of becoming a Cowboys fan. But the deed has been done...
...expected to follow. While the 185 survivors and the next of kin of the 111 who were killed are the ultimate beneficiaries, the struggle will take place between a small cadre of plaintiffs' lawyers and their counterparts, who represent airlines, aviation manufacturers and their insurance companies. That kind of tug-of-war has grown increasingly fierce over the past few decades...
Ultimately, even without the thematic weight imposed on these works by the somewhat arbitrary title "Against Nature," this is very much an exhibition about Japanese artists' continuing tug-of-war with the forces of modernism. Its organizers obviously believe that, in responding to the world around them, today's Japanese artmakers are answering to a personal, not a prescribed, vision of how to depict it. Perhaps, in a modern world, this approach is only natural...