Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curator, Kynaston McShine. The show's emphasis falls on Warhol up to 1968, the year he was shot by a mad lumpen-feminist named Valerie Solanis, one of the hangers-on at his studio, the Factory. The treatment of post-1970 and especially of 1980s Warhol is, by comparison, skimpy...
...with what he had, out of his sense that high art had actually dissolved into mass media. When this ceased to surprise him, his work came too pat. It coarsened and turned industrial. Even his later images of foreboding and death, like the skulls, are trashily melodramatic by comparison with what had gone before, while his inflated recyclings of Raphael's Sistine Madonna and Leonardo's Last Supper could scarcely be more pointless. In the end he was stranded in a plenitude of subjects with nothing to paint...
...Kroks' repertoire will include two new songs, "Tutti Frutty" and "Georgia." The Kroks' debonair style should provide an interesting comparison with that of the Alleycats, which is said to be similar to the Din and Tonics...
...families who have adjusted to the changes in their lives to suggest that there will inevitably be long-term trauma for all children." Experts point out that the study involved a small number of families and that there was no group of intact families to provide a statistical comparison. They note also that children tend to be depressed in adolescence whether they are from broken or intact families. Says psychologist Rex Forehand of the University of Georgia in Athens: "The answer on long-term effects...
...this magnitude that we can't control except nuclear bombs." In 1987 Otis Bowen, then Secretary of Health and Human Services, said AIDS would make black death -- the bubonic plague that wiped out as much as a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages -- "pale by comparison." In a frightening, controversial book, sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson contended that toilet seats could transmit the AIDS virus and that the deadly disease would run rampant among heterosexuals...