Word: twigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paintings, which at first sight seem to consist of nothing but line, moving across the surface in an improvised way full of checks, turnings, erasures -- a maze making itself. The nature of the line is intimately involved with the tool Marden uses, which is in effect the ailanthus twig writ large: a long-handled brush with flitchlike bristles, floppy rather than stiff, whose ramblings convey an air of reflective uncertainty. Not for Marden the forceful calligraphic rush, the electric ink- blackness, of some Zen characters...
...intimate royal portrait than his effigy of the couple in conversation in a rocky landscape, their bonding signified by, among other things, their dress -- he in pink slashed silk with pale gray showing beneath, she in the same gray with pink ribbons and laces; he giving her an olive twig, she giving him a laurel wreath...
Yeltsin, looking weakened and puffy from a Moscow auto crash last month (having shown up for work three days after the accident, he discovered he had a concussion and still required another 10 days of convalescence), denounced Ryzhkov and "the sinking Union government." Nonetheless, he held out an olive twig to the President. Gorbachev, Yeltsin felt, remains "open to dialogue" even if the relationship between the two rivals is "unstable." Not so magnanimous was Grigori Yavlinsky, a young economist who helped draft the 500-Day Plan. He offered to quit on the spot, arguing that the federal government's higher...
Father was used to being needed by everyone, to being constantly involved. Suddenly, the Great Cause had disappeared, and everything came crashing down. A man in this situation is like an ant when some malicious hand suddenly puts an insurmountable twig in its path. Suddenly, this businesslike, industrious creature begins to rush aimlessly in all directions. It's hard enough to start a new life when you're young and the years stretch endlessly before you. It's a hundred times harder when the sun is setting on your old age. Just yesterday Father had been making decisions...
...model anti-Earth House, as it doesn't even offer students glasses. First-years file through the Union's food line only to be greeted by column after towering column of neatly-stacked crimson-and-white waxed paper cups. Harvard forces each first-year to waste at least one twig of a sacrificial tree...