Word: minimalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goffstein is a minimalist, but her text and pictures carry the same emotional freight as William Blake's admonishment to see the world in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour...
Jerry Brown: Minimalist...
...latest offering to an adoring public, Cruel Shoes--this pissant of a volume--is a milestone of the publishing industry; the perfection of the minimalist approach to writing. We have what is, ostensibly, a book. It's nicely bound, has an attractive cover, and won't fall apart when you pick it up; some high-priced graphic designer took a lot of time designing its contents, its fuzzed-out photos, well-spaced lines and wide margins. The choice of typeface is tasteful...
...effect is a sixties-ish one. Like a pop artist, Brown transforms the banal events of everyday life into art. The art becomes the process of the making of art. Like a minimalist, Brown uses simple, repeatable units placed end to end to build the whole, and by doing so, finds herself playing formal games on stage...
...months, the President has been urged not only by business but also by Democratic leaders in Congress to alter his tax plans. Al Ullman, the House Ways and Means chairman, has been pleading with Carter for a "minimalist" rather than a "maximalist" tax bill. He warned the President not to heed the arguments of White House hard-liners on reform. House Speaker Tip O'Neill was equally emphatic. The only way to get a tax bill through Congress, he insisted, was to put tax reduction ahead of reform-and separate them. If the two elements were joined...