Word: antipasto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Councillor ticked off the items on the menu for the victorious players: antipasto, ravioli, meat balls, and Italian wine...
...laying for you," warned Newman. "You go in there a hero, and you come out a bum." One of Pollock's last major works was 1955's Search, an encyclopedia of his artistry in joyous Christmas colors. Its true thrill is seen best close up: an endless antipasto of textures, oils stained and then swirled into pastes, squiggles and scumbles, flecks and fissures that the viewer's eye wanders among, jerking with the appeal of each tiny element...
Guignard's Stations of the Cross paintings had to pass a difficult test, approval by Padre Guilherme Schubert, censor of sacred art for the Catholic Church in Rio. The artist and some of his friends fed the good father an excellent lunch of antipasto and steak, and followed him, wringing their hands, as he walked past the pictures. Schubert, who believes that it is necessary to "police modernists," disapproved of Guignard's skyscraper cross, spear-bearing soldiers ("creatures from Mars") and the bloodied imprint of Christ's visage on Veronica's cloth ("a beheaded mule"). Then...
...managed to publish a sex potboiler, This Woman. In his latest novel, he shows himself thoroughly unblocked. Revisiting the scene of his first book-the Italian colony of West Hoboken, N.J.-he has written a piece of immigrant Americana that has no more narrative line than an antipasto, but glints with passion and pathos, cruelty and laughter. Set in the World War I era, it is a Saroyanesque merry-go-round spinning to minor-key music...