Word: revelation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...midst of the hyper-consuming New York art world of the 1980s. After chalking up Basquiat's success to the happenstance of being in the right trendy scene at the right time and the prevalence of the art world's "reverse racism" (whatever that means), the book seems to revel in the artist's self-destruction and subsequent "fall from grace." Blending descriptions of the decadence of the New York affluent with block quotes from people who claim to have been close to Basquiat, the biography at least succeeds in giving a reader a sense of the hypocricy and egoism...
...just so happens that I'm third on the depth chart, so I don't get in all that much," Bagley says. "If I can contribute by yelling and screaming and getting people excited then that's what I'll do, and I'll revel...
Nothing has gone right for this team, but therecomes a point when you make your own luck. Harvardneeds to find a way to relish and revel in what itcan do well, and to stick to that bluster throughthick and thin.CrimsonPaul S. GutmanTHAT'S GOTTA HURT: Sophomoredefensive end R.D. KERN (right) delivers a hit onLehigh quarterback PHIL STAMBAUGH duringSaturday's game...
...seemed to revel in his dirt as he perched on the wide ledge on the truck's rear. I seemed to be facing a real-live manly man, who was a real cutie in the bargain...
They make a strange menagerie, the Hal Hartley clan. The people in his odd, alert comedies (Trust, Amateur, Flirt) inhabit some Long Island of the mind, where Amy Fisher-style melodrama rubs up against working-class angst. They are part strong, silent types, part East Coast neurotics. They revel in their own contradictions; one Hartley heroine, a nymphomaniac virgin, explains the anomaly by saying, "I'm choosy." His creatures will sit mute and mopey, then turn endlessly articulate once they get going. Self-conscious but not self-aware, skeptical yet wildly romantic, they have a horror of the personal commitment...