Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simply too intricately detailed to mass-produce for spring sale in the U.S. Ricci, who introduced a "firecracker" silhouette, raised eyebrows with clutch-dresses without buttons down the shirt front, requiring two hands to keep them closed and prevent outright exposure above the waist-particularly since Ricci, to heighten the flat-chested flapper look, sent his mannequins out braless. Other houses, to achieve the same de-emphasis, went even farther, bound up their mannequins. "The American woman won't wear it that way," snorted Richard Blauner of New York's Suzy Perette, "because the American woman has grown...
...Veteran, hovers on the edge of abstraction, just as the old soldier himself hovers on the edge of death. In all the other paintings, Rivers has already become bored with subject matter. In a painting called United Nations, he uses stenciled letters, suggesting country-identifying name plates, to heighten the contrast of readymade reality and pure imagination. His Buick Painting with P is not so much a picture of the rear end of a car as a study in force...
...were, between perspectives-years after the scarehead moment of horror, when anguish nullifies distance, and too soon for historical tragedy, when art provides it. But form and perspective apart, The Wall is simply not well enough written. Adapter Millard Lampell gets no leverage into language; his words do not heighten or deepen or darken, are never laconic or poetic or terrible. Rather than quivering with a Whitmanesque "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there." Lampell's lines come all too close to the sentimen tal and the stagy. The Wall is most effective-is indeed...