Word: windowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indifference (in the work, at least) to the dark side of human experience. Does the latter make him a less serious painter? Of course not, any more than it trivialized the work of that still underrated artist Raoul Dufy. At root, Hockney is popular because his work offers a window through which one's eye moves without strain or fuss into a wholly consistent world. That world has its cast of recurrent characters -- friends, lovers and family. Hockney's portraits of his parents, in particular, are full of unabashed filial devotion, and through repeated drawings and paintings he has given...
Like Martin Luther (or somebody) -- richly aware that the world might end tomorrow -- I keep planting apple seeds and watching to see how they grow. Some never germinate at all, some pop up about an inch and then slowly shrivel. But there stands outside my window one apple tree that was once a seed and is now more than twice as tall as I am. All it took me to grow it was about 15 years of my life...
...time I left here, I was disillusioned with the movement," says Harrision. "Now I'm involved in more indirect ways. The times have changed and social change is not likely to be brought about in those ways. That period represented a window in American history. It's not too easy to generate the same kind of mass involvement today. As one grows and moves into a profession, one is in a position to address these issues in more official ways. Certain of us have chosen to work within institutional frameworks...
...times be at problem, especially when it comes to dating, Anderson says. "A lot of the Black people who come in the freshman class bond very quickly, and everyone becomes like a sister or a brother to you," she says. "So that means that dating is out the window. The Black community is so small that anybody who dated anybody was probably your friend, and you would probably feel very awkward, going behind the person that they dated...
...people living there during the mid-70s emptied about 20 cases of long-necked beer bottles per week, according to Sandow. There was "lots of dope. One time, we had so many plants in the windows that the Cambridge cops called the Harvard cops and told them to make us get the plants out of the window," Sandow said...