Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather than step out into the crowd and point, and laugh, or look a bit bemused and tut-tut to my neighbor. Because some big gas is building up in Mailer's chest, straining against his rib cage, straining to explode out any orifice into a dazzling fireworks of vision, or prophecy, or whatever those fireworks are that naked writers with gaseous insides hope to release in testament to their genius...
...frame's edge. In Eighth Avenue Snow Scene, the street juts out in a stage set to frame kids pranking while a gross, pipe-puffing man in galoshes and a checkered coat ambles by through the Styrofoam snow in wood-cutout make-believe. Grooms's cartoon vision stems from reality. To do the snow scene, he sketched a Manhattan street corner during a blizzard until his fingers were stiff with cold...
...high rabbis will hear nothing of this apostasy of fleshly bliss, and in an ambiguous ending, Judith either embraces or resigns herself to the duplicity of her sainthood. If Shaw, in Saint Joan, implies that saints are too pure a currency for the world, Giraudoux, with a more sardonic vision, suggests that they are the world's counterfeit coins...
...adventurers with a scattering of small houses and high hopes. Miami's present style is largely the doing of serendipitous Millionaire Carl Graham Fisher of Indianapolis, manufacturer of PrestOLite auto headlamps. One day in 1912, Fisher looked at the all but deserted beach and had a vision. He filled in swamps, paved roads, laid out golf courses and polo fields, and built five hotels...
Shuttling between her Watch Hill retreat, her winter home in Nassau, her chalet in Switzerland, her 15-room Manhattan penthouse, and her studio in Carnegie Hall, she pursues her vision with an all-encompassing passion. Divorced in January from her second husband, Dr. Benjamin Kean, she bought a four-story brick mansion off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and is renovating it into the Harkness House for Ballet Arts. It will include a workshop and dance school, out of which she plans to form a junior Harkness troupe to tour the small towns...