Word: wanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started with the background, a scumble of brush strokes and hesitations. What he achieved was a space, but one that has nothing to do with the receding perspectives of the Renaissance's vanishing point. It is indeterminate, a cave without walls, a space where a man could wander in his mind's eye and lose his bearings. Contemplating this beckoning No Where, Miró painted on it hard-edged iconographs that pinned the eye to the real surface, the mind to the real world. But not wholly. His image of the earth (a white circle) is only...
Instead, Long's expression creeps into our minds by way of our senses, by contemplation of the subtle calm and simplicity of his method. Long's work is about man's eternal search for order in the chaos around us. He feels impelled to wander in nature, building his own rational and controlled systems from the material around him. The pieces are man-made, yet not artificial. Long is sincerely interested in "the invisibility of art." The phrase is no scrap of artistic rhetoric; it is, rather, the heart of Long's mind. Long is an artist...
...contrast with Kennedy's earlier bumbling performance could not be more startling. Last fall and early winter, he sometimes seemed to lose his concentration in the middle of a speech and wander through rambling, almost incoherent sentences. Now he raps out short, crisp remarks, sometimes punching at the air like a boxer for emphasis, and spices his delivery with sarcastic wit. Deriding Carter's claims that decontrol of oil prices will spur more domestic exploration for petroleum, he notes that Mobil several years ago used some of its rising profits to buy Montgomery Ward. He asks: "How much...
...author has set her novel specifically, almost immovable, in time and place. The Gowers live in Baltimore of the late '60s and '70s, and each chapter has a date for a title. While the externals of '70s life--Master Charge, the Brady Bunch, straight-leg jeans, and Tab--wander through the book, they do so like ships adrift without any place to anchor. In fact, these details act like red-herring clues to the insoluable detective story of Morgan's psyche. Morgan seems even more eternal in contrast to the petty details of time and space that he rises above...
...sextet of "rude mechanicals" who wander into the forest to rehearse their play intrudes on this inhuman enclave like visitors from another dimension. Their antics, delivered by the ART actors with gung-ho spirit and the precision of acrobats, form a haven of the familiar in Epstein's inhospitable forest; yet even they become possessed, reacting to Bottom's "translation" by careering across the stage in hops, sprints and tumbles while the musicians play one of Purcell's country dances. The sorcery of the wood finds little purchase on their "hempen homespun" minds, but gets at then anyway through their...