Word: swift
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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From the worn-out loafers to the signatures of his friends, the show offers an unusually personal view of an artist. Dine never really belonged to Pop art, though he has often been identified with it. He rode the same swift wave to success as Oldenburg, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Wesselmann, shared their conviction that the vocabulary of abstract expressionism was all but exhausted, and gave the object a primary place in his painting. But where Pop's lifeblood was popular imagery, Dine used objects that had figured in his own experience. Where Pop was social, analytical, sometimes bitterly satirical...
Because Japan is still very much a country of slowly Cemented consensus, no swift changes are in prospect. Men who are now in their 60s will rule well into the 1970s, and they are cautious and uncertain. "Today's leaders," says Kyoto University Professor Kei Waka-izuma, "resemble mountain climbers who, finding themselves
...actors all work hard, and, thanks to Boorstin's incredibly swift blocking, almost succeed in making the show move. Unfortunately, Saunders has given them attitudes rather than parts. In this sense. George Sheanshang is magnificently fiery as the play's quasi-narrator, and Virginia Cook, a fine comedienne, plays confusion in the best Morton Lorne manner. Leigh Woods, as an actor playing a hermit whose life is investigated by the others, makes his character live in the brief sections where the playwright lets him live. But most of the time, Saunders has the hermit's tragedy described to us, rather...
...Against Princeton. center McManama grabbed a pass from David Hynes, the left wing on his line, and snapped the puck past Tiger goalie Ed Swift at 3:06 of the first period to open the scoring...
...Recession? Nixon's Economic Report, supported by the findings of his Council of Economic Advisers, forecast both less inflation and less growth for the economy this year than last. Gross national product should rise about 5½% to $985 billion, the CEA predicted, compared with the too swift 7.7% expansion during 1969. The trick, of course, is to keep the anti-inflationary slowdown from growing into a grave economic slump. Last week, stock prices, often an advance indicator of broader economic trends, fell to their lowest level since November 1963 (see BUSINESS). Still, Nixon told his news conference...