Word: stays
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...they form the image of a gigantic color TV on the blink. This spectrum of static, infuriating when it appears on the 19-inch Sony in the den, seems almost beautiful, an electric Jackson Pollock or Gene Davis gone haywire on this enormous cinema canvas. The Being There audience stays until the last credit has disappeared over the top of the frame. They would stay if they showed more colored dots. To watch, to watch...
Partisan Review's flirtation with Stalinism was admittedly brief, but during that period large issues about the role of the writer in American society were raised. As Granville Hicks has written, the central tension for the American artist has been one of "struggle or flight": whether to stay in this country and make an artistic go of it, or gratefully withdraw to some Parisian garret. Partisan Review editors--and William Phillips was chief among them--chose to stay and struggle during the 1930s. Their magazine represented one attempt by intellectuals to provide a forum in society for the dispossessed artist...
...never seen people working in teams before. They assure us they intend to stay, some for several months," Dennis said...
Douglas, cantankerous but noble, wished to stay on the court until a liberal justice could replace him, but he recognized his ill health and retired, less than a week after the conference the authors describe. Douglas knew when his time was up, and if an aged hero tried to stretch his usefulness a few months, so what? Do we need to know that he stank in the process...