Word: interplay
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bandleader Gerry Mulligan, 63, is particularly impressed by Wynton's developing skills as a composer and his "sensibilities as a bandleader." Those sensibilities were sorely tested in 1985, when Branford jumped ship to join Sting's rock group. That not only destroyed a band style based on the tight interplay between the two brothers, but also sparked press articles that turned the breakup into a bitter public row. The dust has settled, but relations remain cool between them. "He didn't kill nobody, you know," shrugs Wynton...
...museum takes a controversial look at the interplay of "high" art and "low" (popular and mass) culture. Alas, the survey works better in the catalog than on the walls...
...colors in his works are vivid and the forms solid but curvaceous. Forms rendered by line and those denoted by blocks of color are in a captivating interplay. One piece which exemplifies the interchange remarkably well is the 1947 work, Woman at a Window. The solid blocks of monochrome color are seen through the decisive black curves that define the nude figure. We cannot be certain that the figure is the subject matter of the work. We begin to suspect that the blocks of color--overpowering the transparent figure by virtue of their expansiveness and contrasting tones--are themselves...
...piece, titled "Collaborative Yellow," in which each VES student of one class contributed a strip, is an exercise in varying items for texture. Among the everyday elements featured are sponges, licorice, and wash clothes, covered in bright yellow paint. The vivid color and interplay of textures draw the veiwer in to examine what beneath the paint creates the unusual texture. The painting is fun to look...
Perhaps the Confucian work ethic is the source of motivation for some Asian-Americans. But to describe this as the sole reason for the entire group's relative academic success is a shallow analysis of a complex interplay of forces...