Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Erika [has] a very powerful net game," junior Co-Captain Rachel Pollock said. "I think part of the problem in that match was that she lost some of her confidence in that ability...
When viewing the later works of Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, and Willem de Kooning in the current exhibit at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum, lateness itself assumes striking importance. In contrast to modernists recognized for one definitive style--like Barnett Newman and Pollock--Johns, Serra and de Kooning eschew a signature style, instead favoring a perpetually regenerating dynamism...
Heffner may see the NC-17 rating as a guide for concerned parents, but producers, distributors and exhibitors take it as a guide to what they can make, release and show. "NC-17 movies do not fit into our main business plan," says Thomas Pollock, chairman of the MCA/Universal Motion Picture Group. "By and large, we are designing movies as entertainment for large audiences. That is our mandate. I doubt that NC-17 will be viable unless some mainstream movie is willing to go out with the label. Otherwise the category has no real meaning, because no one's using...
...calligraphy guarantees an artist nothing. For decades, America has been full of bad abstract painting based on Chinese and Japanese ideograms -- it goes with wind-bells and Bay Area Zen. If Marden's work avoids that cliche, it is because of his accommodation with Western gestural drawing -- specifically Pollock's -- in its speed, amplitude of space and openness to chance. In these paintings you see Marden thinking about Pollock, rather slowly. Marden's black, groping line offers a kind of schematic reduction of Pollock's all-over...
...apparatus of consciousness. You don't get the image all at once, and the size of the canvases is meant not so much to impress you in the familiar, take-it-or-leave-it American fashion as to draw you slowly into the web. This, too, is part of Pollock's often misunderstood legacy. Looking at the "Cold Mountain" paintings one inevitably thinks of nature: thin they are, and austere, but also full of light and space. They suggest mountain landscapes, rocks half-effaced by blowing mist, sharp things incompletely seen. They are materializations of the words of the Chinese...