Word: unreality
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...PAINTINGS--some of which contain more than 50 two-inch figures--literally ravish the eye. They are brilliant in their color, striking in their design and almost unreal in their detail. The court-commissioned artists, the catalogue tells us, fashioned their brushes from squirrel and kitten hairs. They worked for days on a single figure. The paintings are illuminated book plates; even on such a scale, they are subtler than works 30 times their size. Among the rocks and the sky hide contorted faces, tiny animals and endless innuendo. Welch, who's done work in the field for more than...
Each American sees about 50 million advertisements in his lifetime that determine his "goals, concept of success and images of others," Kilbourne said, adding that only by discouraging unreal portrayals of people will American mores change...
There crisis in our national life a singular feeling that the current crisis is all unreal and nothing much is genuinely changing for better or, for that matter, worse, and when the principal actors finish their speeches and when we get through at interminable presidential election, we will all be right back at worrying about what the kids are going to do next summer and how to meet the mortgage payments...
...case, whom does the art boom benefit? Only collectors and middlemen. Few artists get to share in it. This is partly because boom conditions create an unreal system of reputation, with most of the benefits going to a handful of stars at the top and scarcely anything to the rest. The American art education system, churning out as many graduate artists every five years as there were people in late 15th century Florence, has in effect created an unemployable art proletariat whose work society cannot "profitably" absorb. Generous tax laws, which enabled collectors to buy low, keep a picture...
...election, the Administration has drifted toward accepting the union position that the pay ceilings need more "flexibility." Says Labor Secretary Ray Marshall: "With inflation barreling along at its current rate, the old guidelines are clearly untenable." A top Administration aide confided last week: "It would be unreal to expect labor to accept continuation of a program that was successful in holding down wages but a disaster in holding down prices." And one official on the COWPS, which administers the standards, sheepishly maintained that the anti-inflation effort "could be just as well off without a guideline program...