Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...which, Robert Trent Jones gives a ringing bravo. "If it's short, flat, dull courses that the pro golfers prefer, they can order them out of the Sears, Roebuck catalog," he says. Indeed, his whole object is to create a course of "hard pars and easy bogeys, a course that tests a player's skill by demanding well-thought-out and beautifully executed shots." Convinced that the gallery does not want to see "boring putting contests but great golf shots," he would even like to eliminate "cheap birdies" by extending the minimum length of par-five holes from...
Somehow in your time for many the taste for this long wished-for kind of life has gone flat. Its authenticity and its attractiveness have lost their charm. In the university world this is a present major problem, perhaps our most frightening one. But whatever the deepest origins of our current troubles, we need not wait on their full explication to acknowledge that their effects on higher education in your time have been, at the best least, jarring...
...After graduation he entered the Cleveland School of Art. There, it was not modernist battles raging in Paris or at New York's Armory Show that influenced him, but Chinese scrolls and Japanese prints. Soon he was making hundreds of nature studies. Many were developed in watercolors whose flat, abstract patterns still seem precocious for a young man all but oblivious of contemporary...
...picks up another. When her nasty little painter friend Renata chooses to try a fake suicide the day after a real abortion, Shirley ditches her husband on a sacred Saturday evening he had reserved for taking her out to dinner and spends the night at Renata's flat. Philippe, ever logical, goes home to mother and has a liver attack. Shirley, forlorn and illogical, goes to a restaurant and picks up another waif, a girl who has ordered a four-course meal for her cocker spaniel but has no money...
Like Leo the Last, The Landlord concerns itself with a guilt-ridden property owner in the middle of the slums. Unlike Leo, however, The Landlord is a glossy, flat, fake Hollywood attempt at black social comedy...