Word: underground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abstract art was the rage, he sinned by embracing premature neoexpressionism back in the '50s and '60s. When painting was required to be thin, linear and efflorescent, Kossoff stuck to delving into the images and people around him and the memories within. His scenes of public baths, markets and Underground entrances are packed with small figures, stuck in their social matrix as though in jam (especially given Kossoff's dense pigment) -- a pictorial equivalent, as it were, of the double meaning of the Hebrew word olam, which means world but also crowd. A painting like A Street in Willesden...
...some 20 medals for heroism, nine of them on the same day. Seagrave argues convincingly that Marcos' stirring tales of escaping from Japanese prison camps after being tortured, and then conducting reconnaissance raids for the Filipino resistance, are so much hogwash. In fact, an American commander of the underground in 1945 had ordered Marcos' arrest and execution as a collaborator...
According to the author's somewhat breathless account, when Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita ("the Tiger of Malaya") moved to Manila in 1944, he took charge of several billion dollars' worth of gold that the Japanese had accumulated in their conquest of Southeast Asia. The bullion was cached in underground caves dug by U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war, who were then buried alive with it. Seagrave claims that Marcos was able to disperse the gold with the aid of a murky global network of coconspirators, including Swiss banks, a London-based bullion cartel, right-wing American political groups (among them...
...state of Massachusetts and the federal government spent more than $11 million to completely renovate the underground subway station. In addition to providing subway riders with expanded train platforms, the MBTA also improved surface transit by restructuring the bus stop area along Western Avernue. Bus riders now enjoy benches and weather protection in Central Square...
...hundred. Don't tell Russell that less is more; he'll say that too much is not nearly enough. His films (The Devils, Mahler, Altered States) are unguided tours of aesthetic excess. They turn classical composers into heavy- metal hellions, history into ranting nightmare, the Great Books into underground comics...