Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them, and though from time to time he could produce an intriguing passage of spiky marks or a brisk clash of blaring color, the work quickly settles into the visual monotony of arid overstylization. Its relentless fortissimo is wearisome. (An exception is some of the works on paper, which attain a delicacy of placement and interval absent from the paintings...
...clarity I achieved in my actions is something which I have never had, something I honestly don't expect to attain for a long, long time (pending retirement or mountain trek). Everything was done purposefully and silently, even the meals...
...least twice a week my parents (leaders of the Group of 100, an ecological group of artists and intellectuals) would receive a fax from Petra Kelly, in which she would send reports of the environmental situation throughout Europe and accounts of her struggles with politicians and bureaucrats to attain greater human and environmental rights...
Helen too has an overreaching plan, to leave Phil and open an upscale restaurant of her own. As she and Harry head toward failure, they also approach, but never attain, something like tragic status. As characters they are not complicated or resonant enough to sustain that kind of grandeur...
...tense narrative with choral dance and music staged in a highly personal melange of styles, mostly from Asia, which she considers "the true home of acting." Having argued a few years ago that no Westerner could understand Shakespeare because no one (except, of course, Mnouchkine and her disciples) could attain the requisite intellectual distance, she now insists that the only way to comprehend Greek drama, the wellspring of Western culture, is to see it through the prism of her favorite form and principal influence, the kathakali dance drama of southern India...