Word: pace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every stage of his painting is based on drawing to an unusually full degree. Drawing is the essence of his work, the process that makes his pictorial thought possible. It defines the forms, sets up the changes of pace between areas abutting across a surface, provides the evidence of change and reconsideration that the calm look of his finished paintings only partly hides. "If ((drawing)) does not insist on its importance," writes the show's curator, John Elderfield, in his catalog essay -- as acute and satisfying a text as any critic in recent memory has written on drawing...
Another fault of the book is its emphasis on the game story. Whereas Feinstein's interviews and anecdotes give the book its unique color and life, the game stories slow down the reader's pace. The reader is no longer reading a book, but a 464-page story on how Perdue managed to sneak one past Indiana...
COWARD'S plays rely on the lightning speed of witty repartee, which is rapid even for the British stage. Indeed, a quick pace seems to pervade the characters' every action. Elizabeth Humphrey as Mrs. Condomine affects a no-nonsense, secretarial air that perfectly fits, as her husband would say, her "glacial nature." As Humphrey's high strung counterpart, Peter Hirsch also seems to have had one too many cups of Sanka before the performance. This freneticism however, appears to be appropriate to Charles' character...
...path remains open and the pace of peace continues," the president said in a nationally-televised news conference one day after his fifth and final summit with the Soviet leader...
MOSCOW--A year after concluding an arms treaty with the United States, Mikhail S. Gorbachev is heading for a meeting with President Reagan and President-elect George Bush to help set the pace for future arms talks...