Word: unevennesses
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...Sydney. It contains only 64 paintings. Fairweather's output was tiny; he destroyed or lost much of his work, and in the end about 500 pieces have survived, including drawings-not much for a man who began to paint in the early 1920s. And since he was a very uneven artist, their quality varies widely. He cared absolutely nothing for permanence; he used cheap powder colors on cardboard most of the time, thus bequeathing a nightmare to museum conservators. Only the actual process of painting, of resolving the image and getting it to stand alone in its own space, mattered...
...Quartet next presented "The Drinking Gourd," the final movement of Marty Ehrlich's String Quartet (1993). According to Ehrlich, the movement gets its name from a slogan of the Underground Railroad, "follow the drinking gourd." At first, it sounds like a syncopated roundance in uneven time. Much of its inspiration appears drawn from the stark landscapes that Barto'k portrayed in his string music. Soon, the cello enters with a jazz vamp, introducing the genre in which Ehrlich is most at home...
...assertiveness in the provinces; many of them are concerned about it. Deng's economic reforms have led to immense growth and considerable prosperity for some, but they have also brought worrisome side effects. Inflation is in double digits, corruption and crime are on the rise, and development is very uneven...
...musical numbers are somewhat more uneven, but mostly successful. Emily Bowen's costumes, Doctor Who-inspired space suits that bear an eerie resemblence to cruisewear, are an appropriate touch...
...Soviet ICBM deployment programs have followed an uneven course marked by spurts of activity, long pauses, and abrupt cutbacks of what initially appeared to be large-scale program," an October 1965 intelligence estimate concludes...