Word: gray
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...There are no dramatic peaks and valleys, no aesthetically pleasing beginning, middle and end. Gone, too, are the conventional techniques of characterization. Real people, with blood running through their veins, would detract from Pinter's concern with the purely intellectual. Jerry, Emma and Robert are as colorless as the gray business suits, black dresses and Burburry raincoats that fill their wardrobes. The stage is equally stark, lest a trinket or painting leak evidence of a character's personality--the stage is even more bare than it was on Broadway: a simple table and chairs replace Jerry's cushy leather study...
...record, the Crimson has not won as many as six games in a season since 1976, when it tied for third in the Ivies. Despite the gray day at Dartmouth and the frustrating loss at Princeton--a game Harvard should have won--Cornell injected renewed hope into this talent-laden Crimson assemblage when it thwarted Yale at New Haven, 24-6, this weekend. Now, at least, the gridders fate rests with their collective cleats...
Such paintings suggest the strength of the Neue Sachlichkeit tendency to paint a world beyond the spectator's control - not Leger's confidence in technology, but glimpses of an airless place, always the city, with looming buildings, threatening, gray and crystalline, where the exact divisions between things seem to mirror the divisions and conflicts of class that concerned many of the painters. In particular, they obsessed Grosz. One of his friends called him "a Bolshevik in painting, nauseated by painting." This was not quite true, for although Grosz once declared that compared with the practical tasks of political...
...Paul Gray...
...ordinary newspaper, you must understand," the author, a former writer for The Crimson and The New York Times, writes, and he wasn't referring to The Crimson. White, who worked at The Times from 1974 to 1978, has written a novel highly critical of the "Gray Lady," transparently disguised here as the New York "Globe," (Just in case readers don't get the message, they are quickly told three times in the novel's first three pages of the Globe's "stately," "black" and "great" Corinthian masthead.) True Bearing is a novel about The Times; about journalism and reporting; about...