Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...images that work best are the ones where Kitaj spins a web of congruent allusion without ever getting too literal, where the art-history and real-history footnotes balance and bear one another out. A remarkable one is If Not, Not, 1975-76, his meditation on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. One could hardly call it an illustration of the poem, although Eliot seems to make an appearance as the clerkish figure with spectacles and hearing aid in the lower left corner, an irritable St. Anthony tempted by a naked girl to whom he has clearly not been...
...case as little more than an upper-middle-class rendition of Frankie and Johnny (he done her wrong. Bang! Bang!), Trilling sees a drama worthy of the talents of Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy and F. Scott Fitzgerald. She also teases out enough class conflict to spin a dark web of one of egalitarian America's most sensitive subjects...
...deck of one of the barges is a ten-story-high compressor building that will be used to help reinject gas beneath the ground. It looks like a modest cathedral and is trailed by a second barge carrying a fully assembled drilling complex that will house a web of pipes rising from 36 different wells. Cargo aboard the 14 barges is worth around $170 million, and the oil companies are paying about $10 million to transport...
...Casey battle involved a complex mixture of personal and institutional motives, the springing of leaks and planting of misinformation, and a web of backstage intrigue that tended to obscure the real reasons for the struggle. As pieced together last week by TIME correspondents, the inside story reflects little glory on any of the participants...
Chen's death aroused congressional concern that the repressive government of President Chiang Ching-kuo maintains a web of spies, especially on campuses, to keep an eye on the 500,000 Taiwanese living in the U.S. At a hearing last week, a House foreign affairs subcommittee heard testimony that Taiwanese headed for the U.S. are warned not to speak out against the Chiang government. Most obey, aware of the ubiquitous informers. Said Iowa Republican Jim Leach: "Without question, agents of the Taiwan government have engaged in harassment, intimidation and monitoring of U.S. residents." He called on the U.S. Government...