Word: prolixity
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...slow developer, and has remained a decidedly uneven artist. But he never fell into the ghastly Warhol ethos that gelded so many talents in the '80s. The show starts with early collages involving paper bags and window blinds, pale elegant things haunted by Jasper Johns. It proceeds through a prolix series of paintings from the '60s that depict the corner of an imaginary "ideal" and utterly banal room with no furniture in it, done in very close-valued colors that turn the image into a benign parody of Ad Reinhardt's black paintings. Odd little signs -- a blurt of pigment...
...looked back at the outset of the 1981 tour: "Like remote planets revolving in space, the Stones throughout the seventies continued to exert a magnetic pull known in physics as action at a distance. Their own removal from action infused their albums with a diffuse electric, reflective, anomalous and prolix sound...
...fairly intriguing story, though Hoving told it more concisely in The Chase, the Capture, part of a book on collecting policy issued by the Met six years ago. Stretched to this length, it becomes prolix. Le style c'est l'homme, and Hoving's style reflects the character he showed when he was in power at the museum-windy, lapel-grabbing and insincerely populist. The tone is struck in the first sentence: "The vast halls of the Metropolitan . . . were awesomely still." All halls, tomes, sums of money and issues at stake tend to be "vast." Most stillnesses...
Thank you for confirming what we've long suspected about The New Yorker [Jan. 12]. The occasional chuckle or pleasure experienced in coming upon an engrossing piece does not compensate any longer for the exasperation generated by plowing through all those slick, expensive pages of prolix maunderings. It's very sad, somewhat like losing a bright, witty and interesting companion to stroke and senility...
...into an electric outlet; cables run from the computer along the robot's arm and transmit instructions in the form of electric impulses to the claw; for heavy work, robots use hydraulic pressure. The Robot Institute of America, an industrial trade group, therefore offers a contemporary, if somewhat prolix, definition of a robot: "A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools or specialized devices, through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks...