Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cairo seeks new arms because the Soviets have provided virtually none since the 1973 war, while generously refurbishing the Syrian army and advancing $1 billion in military goods to an Arab wild man, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Moscow intimates that Egypt's staggering debt for previous goods and services-still about $6 billion, including commercial loans-is a reason for the slowdown. Sadat in private conversations gives probably a more accurate reason. He accuses the Soviets of attempting to overthrow him by generating unrest in Egypt in revenge for his participating in U.S. step-by-step diplomacy...
What's in a name? Not much, the historian of art is bound to answer. Cubism was not about cubes, nor Fauvism about wild beasts. When in 1905 an affable critic looked round the Paris Salon d'Automne, which contained an Italianate bust surrounded by the paintings of Henri Matisse and his disciples, he made a wisecrack about "Donatella chez les fauves" (Donatello among the wild beasts), thus giving a short-lived movement a very durable and misleading label. Fauvism was worked out by a small group of artists over a span of three years; it was dead...
...York's Museum of Modern Art, sponsored by SCM Corporation and the National Endowment for the Arts, supplies the means to an answer. The museum's curator of painting and sculpture, John Elderfield, has assembled 114 works by 22 artists under the title "The 'Wild Beasts': Fauvism and Its Affinities." The title is presumably ironic, since the last impression the MOMA wants to give is that Fauve painting might keep so much as an erg of its old offensive power. "To look again at these exquisitely decorative paintings," writes Elderfield in his admirable catalogue essay...
...other sophomores, George Aiken and Dave Begohossian, are making potent bids for oars on the other side of the boat. John Niles, a senior who had not rowed since the fall of his freshman year, has in the words of one teammate, "gone wild." Two 1975 J.V.s, Bill Kerins and Dave Bixby, are also top competitors for port positions...
...Clive Davis, former czar of Columbia now making a comeback with Arista Records, picks her out of the ruck of New York City cult figures and decides her rock and roll is worth the Big Play, assuming it's carefully cultivated like a wild plant in a hothouse. Her rock grew out of her poetry readings and it's angry poetic rock. About such prime time subjects as homosexual rape near deserted high school lockers to the tune of Land of a Thousand Dances. A whole herd of stud boys surrounds Johnny by the lockers and his head is getting...