Word: ture
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biographer, and the book grinds to a stop. Dubin's wife Kitty is jittery about becoming older; she misses the son and daughter who have grown up and left. So does Dubin, sinking ever deeper into depression: "I am in my thoughts a detached lonely man, my na ture subdued by how I've lived and the lives I've written...
...rectitude" - engraves the surface with a kind of moral certainty. A work like June 4-52 (tableform), with the vestige of a dark, undulating horizon line assimilated into the play of the still life, is in its way a glimpse of paradise, a state where the conflicts of na ture and culture are resolved in har mony. The ambition to achieve such harmony has all but vanished from painting today. In Ben Nicholson's work it is preserved, modestly but tenaciously, as though under glass...
Nabokov crossed too many borders to have been a winner in the geopolitics of the Nobel Prize. Yet he gave a prize greater than any he might have received: his challenging, intricate fiction, which miraculously demonstrates that art is not a mirror held up to na ture, but rather a prism that refracts blinding reality into rainbows of wisdom and feeling...
They are the medium for one of the most exhilarating meditations on struc ture - the tradition being that of pre-1914 Matisse and post- 1918 Mondrian - ever conducted by an American artist...
...dances are jaggedly choreographed, incidental music has the tex ture of a blind fog, and the costumes might have been purchased on the Skid Row of the Casbah. The acting is on the high school epic level - strident, collision-prone and panicky. Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater ought to be declared a disaster area...