Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abecedarians, people who are learning the alphabet. This season they and their families are in luck: three ABC books offer a bright amalgam of sophistication and simplicity. In Pigs from A to Z (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), Arthur Geisert's suite of copper etchings follows siblings with curly tails and mischievous minds as they construct a wolfproof tree house by the letters. En route, the illustrator-author ingeniously employs words that describe his book (eerie, ideal, spectacular) and performs the hardest task in children's literature: enlightening with surprises...
...measure himself not only against the visual stimuli of the Cote d'Azur but against the heritage of the 19th century, whose former citizen he was. Its masters speak both to and from his Nicois canvases. The hushed green density of Large Landscape, Mont Alban, 1918, is an amalgam of Courbet and Corot, though the slow, wristy drawing that drives the eye round the curve of the road and follows the slant of the windblown pines is entirely Matisse's own. The modulation of silvery grays (jug of water, belly of sole) with a few touches of red within...
...culture. Composer Philip Glass has brought the pulsating idiom of rock into the sacred precincts of the opera house, while Theater Artist Robert Wilson's slow-motion dreamscapes have influenced not only a neophyte filmmaker like Byrne but an experienced theater director like Andrei Serban. Performance art, an offbeat amalgam of music, theater, narration and stand-up comedy, has caught flight on the puckish wings of Laurie Anderson. Choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Lucinda Childs and Laura Dean have pushed out the envelope of movement with each new step they have taken...
...Galician emigres Selig and Malke Grossinger bought a farm with a down payment of $450. After they became innkeepers they turned a first-year gross of $81. But things picked up between the wars. Their blond, gregarious daughter Jennie had acquired some nearby property, and with an amalgam of public relations, real estate smarts and philanthropy, she became the lodestar of the Catskills. Politicians came to the place they called the "G" to court the Jewish vote, athletes to use the growing facilities, entertainers to try out new routines en route to Broadway or Hollywood...
...Nobel contender for several years, for both the peace and literature prizes. (In a departure from custom, the Nobel Committee cited Bob Geldof, organizer of Live Aid and other fund-raising rock concerts, as runner- up for this year's peace prize.) Wiesel regards his award with an amalgam of gratitude and caution. "I don't think that prizes validate work," he says. "They give stature, texture, the possibility to reach more people. There's a mystique about the Nobel. It gives you a better loudspeaker...