Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...initiated a new charge against Callas of insulting a public official and even escalated the affair by accusing Tantini and Ballarini of bearing false witness and failing to report a misdemeanor. All that happened back in 1952. Last week, when an examining magistrate declared the case null and void because the statute of limitations had run out, not one "Che hello!" of triumph issued from the Aegean hideaway where Callas is vacationing with Film Maker Pier Paolo Pasolini...
...cynical wisdom of the world. When she told him she never wanted to get to be like him, he replied: "Nobody wants to, but you will." It is a judgment against which Joan is still flailing out, and her anger keeps her on the brink of staring-into-the-void depressions. In her lean, elliptical prose, she always writes about the thunderous passage of emotion through the brain, of battles lost for love or understanding, of desertion and disillusionment-the realm of psychic pain...
...solution was to start with what he called a "void," a blank circle on a spacious canvas, building color and movement around it. Soon the void developed into a stripe, or as he preferred to call it, a "zip." The zip usually zipped straight down for eight feet or so through an unmodulated expanse of plain color. When the paintings were shown in 1950 at the Betty Parsons Gallery, reactions ranged from negative to outrage. "You're a threat to us all," exclaimed one artist. What followed were perhaps Newman's bleakest years...
...exquisite precision, records the pain of existence. "The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops." So says Pozzo, the slavedriver, the pig, the spokesman for a decaying, overburdened, but strangely charming establishment. "There is no lack of void," says Estragon, cap-turing in his words the twentiethcentury's ironic understanding of time and space. And the agony, the anomic, the anxiety, the sheer numbing ignorance of existence is what impassions Vladimir's shriek to an unhearing universe...
...world's worst inflation. The erstwhile "President for Life" viewed himself as a dedicated revolutionary and nationalist. But his flaming oratory and grandiose promises never produced a better life for his countrymen, nor any voice for them in his "guided democracy." Meaningless slogans and acronyms echoed in the void. Sukarno's big movement on the world stage was the 1955 Bandung Conference of Nonaligned Nations, after which he moved with aplomb in Washington, Moscow or Peking. He spouted Lincoln as easily as Lenin...