Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people around him and the memories within. His scenes of public baths, markets and Underground entrances are packed with small figures, stuck in their social matrix as though in jam (especially given Kossoff's dense pigment) -- a pictorial equivalent, as it were, of the double meaning of the Hebrew word olam, which means world but also crowd. A painting like A Street in Willesden, 1985, reminds one of how pointless the stereotypes about English art have become. It is not anecdotal, witty, light or conversational. Rather, the opposite. In Kossoff, an obdurate grandeur of intention is coupled with a deep...
...this campaign, the very word liberal is like a poison dart. Is liberalism dead in this country...
...perseveres, pointing to another word. "Ubiquitous. Sometimes when you are walking around downtown L.A., the police are ubiquitous." Polite laughter. "Resonant. Many opera singers have a resonant quality to their voice." He breaks into a baritone, singing scales with a mock gravity...
...Rayborn, 43, is already damp with sweat, trying to keep up with her rambunctious first-graders at Tunica's Rosa Fort Elementary School. "All right," she says firmly. "Yesterday we learned the letter l. Today we will learn the letter d." She hands out construction paper "bones." If the word on the "bone" begins with d, the child gets to "feed the dog" -- a large construction-paper hound with a hole for a mouth. The kids love...
...CHILL OF HISTORY. When the White House commissioned Edmund Morris to write Ronald Reagan's biography, the historian was granted unprecedented access to the President and his staff. But Morris has had trouble lately getting into meetings where he once was welcome. Word has reached the White House that the historian has privately criticized the President. Morris denies ever talking out of school...