Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI 1901-1966, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington. The paintings, drawings and familiar elongated sculptures of the great Swiss-born modernist. Through...
...paradox of Sontag is that she is an ardent modernist with the earnestness -- and superabundant energy -- of a Victorian moralist. If she likes to "go faster," it's partly because she has so much to cram in. In August, for instance, she attended the biennial gathering of the writers group PEN International (she is president of PEN's American chapter) in Seoul and managed to infuriate Korean authorities by insistently raising the issue of imprisoned South Korean writers. Late September brought the New York Film Festival premiere of Sarah, a documentary on Sarah Bernhardt that Sontag narrates, and a week...
...ardent modernist with the earnestness -- and energy -- of a Victorian moralist, she' s readying a book on aids, finishing a novel, narrating a documentary. "I love to go faster," she says...
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI 1901-1966, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington. The paintings, drawings and familiar elongated sculptures of the great Swiss-born modernist. Through...
...tour adjourns to the Martin Luther King Memorial Library downtown, a large, gloomy building in the soul-crushing modernist style. Here the search for a rest room takes on a literary character, mainly Kafkaesque: a visitor finds the men's room down a darkened corridor on the third floor, just past the security cameras, but it's locked and a sign on the door says AFTER 5:30 USE MEN'S ROOM ON A-LEVEL...