Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earliest memories was of "the light -- light all around." Georgia O'Keeffe spent her life trying to recapture that elemental radiance on paper and canvas. The quest began obscurely on the loam of Sun Prairie, Wis., and ended famously in the desert of Abiquiu, N. Mex. O'Keeffe was the daughter of an Irish-American farmer and a Hungarian American of aristocratic descent. As art historian Roxana Robinson discloses in this romantic but insightful biography, both strains were apparent from the beginning. The child had six siblings, and she could be highly social and convivial. But it took great effort...
Still, it is the later artist who has won a more valid celebrity. This is the solitary poet of the desert, interpreter of bleached bone and sand and light -- light all around. O'Keeffe lived to be 98 and became the '60s and '70s apotheosis of feminine independence. But she was never quite so leathery as she appeared. Robinson's final chapters suggest a Tennessee Williams scenario, with an old woman smitten and exploited by her handsome protege, ceramist Juan Hamilton. Over the family's protests, Hamilton manipulated the painter's affairs until her death in 1986. He was eventually...
...catalog of dead colonialism in the Sahara, Fata Morgana focuses on the adandoned debris from World War II, the mad-magical strain in both Black and German tourists digging for ethnic information. With his cache of expressionistic ploys, Herzog has turned a placid and lyrical desert landscape into a spacious gliding visual-aural metaphor...
...Diner (1982), she played the young married whose husband rags her because she can't catalog his precious 45s. In Tender Mercies she was Robert Duvall's teen daughter. She righteously battled Dr. Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and taught her sweet niece how to dance in Desert Bloom. Just now she is bookending her role in Sea with a turn as the triple-crossing ultrabitch in Walter Hill's Johnny Handsome. Tough? This babe can blast a robbery victim without blinking. And when her muscular creep crony pulls a gun on her, she stares back utterly unimpressed...
Many students said the change had prompted them to desert Lamont's remoter reaches and study on the main floor...