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...arctic pleasures of conceptualism - are now well in retreat before a wave of gesture, expressionism and all the tumult of "painterly" painting. Encouraged by a climate favoring vigor and personality, artists are propelling the brush past the borders of the canvas or turning out sculpturally elaborated frames that complement work in which the hand prevails. At the same time, a general drift away from resolutely flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture as a window onto the illusion of a three-dimensional space. Says Painter Neil Jenney, who uses oversize frames to magnify...
Moses added that he wants to make sure that the students complement the efforts of proctors...
...cross-cultural juxtaposition of music and poetry complement each other surprisingly well. Rock lyrics are rarely known for their intricacy, and neither are Chinese poems. As Warner commented, the poems "imagery is very simple and direct and beautiful. It's very earthy, it doesn't bullshit around. That's why the Blake poem is in there, to sort of contrast. He's very wordy and his images are very thick." The finest of the eleven songs also has the most stereotypically Oriental source, a mournful pastoral poem botanically entitled "Motherwort...
LOCATIONS COMPLEMENT paternal preferences. Boswell was a lawyer by trade, and although Brady describes several fascinating cases that found the kneejerking Boswell scurrying to the defence, mostly he hated the tepid legal routine. Further, he lacked the instincts of a lawyer. Although Boswell did settle down some after marrying his beloved wife Margaret, Edinburgh in the shadow of his father and the law was never a pleasant home for him. "Only in London were his talents and personality appreciated at their full value. Only in London did mere existence blossom into life." In London was Johnson, Burke, Goldsmith along with...
...enough voters believe in the Shamie of the populist tradition and the Reagan approach to life and government, and reject the John Birch Society and NCPAC, then the Boy State may find itself with a Republican complement to Ted Kennedy in the Senate...