Word: groundedness
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AMERICA HAS BECOME obsessed with its fall from grace, as the faery world affluence of the '60s and '70s fades into the dim gray of an inflationary, post-industrial society. Current disillusionment and failure naturally foster exaggerated perceptions of past-promise and potential. There was a time when something special...
Yet if the poetic consistency of Hopper's vision now seems far more interesting than the unadventurous vanguardism of most "advanced" American painting in the '20s and '30s, that is partly because it was grounded in 19th century France: especially in Manet, whose work Hopper studied and...
The immigrants usually like Boston. It is somehow like the cities, primarily Moscow and Leningrad, from which the immigrants come. Says Ivry, "Boston is also a very popular place, because the immigrants perceive it as an intellectual city." This perception, grounded in hazy information not readily available in the U...
Despite the loss of last year's number two and three women--senior captain Johanna Foreman, who'll be back in February, and British sensation Paula Newnham, grounded with a foot injury--coach Pappy Hunt anticipates an outstanding season.
The Lilliputian line has been hurt by other problems as well. Last year Icelandair's single DC-10 was grounded for 37 days following the crash of an American Airlines DC-10 in Chicago. The airline has also been troubled by a large number of no-show passengers, who...