But mainly these works reveal a tender, playful side to Mr. Polk Smith, an early proponent of glossy, rigorous, hard-edge Minimalist painting.
A widely held belief asserts that during these years a band of rigorous, cutting-edge composers, mostly based in prestigious East Coast universities, seized the intellectual high ground and bullied their colleagues and students into accepting serial procedures as the only valid form of modernism.
Pestival, which was first staged in 2006 to celebrate "the art of being an insect", has become an extraordinary success, combining rigorous, cutting-edge research with passion, creativity and fun in a manner that has mass appeal and changes the way we view these creatures.
According to SAC Capital Advisors, the wildly successful hedge fund now accused of systematic crime, the firm not only has "a strong culture of compliance" intended to "deter insider trading," as the firm put it recently, but may also have one of the most rigorous and "cutting edge" hedge fund compliance programs in the country.
Mr. Oldenburg's five-story studio, on the western edge of SoHo, is utterly tidy, its classic loft spaces furnished with rigorous Bauhaus classics and hard-edge Minimal pieces by Donald Judd.
Suzuki is determined to maintain his edge by using a rigorous year-round workout regimen.
Ours was an uneasy peace, perhaps too precarious to survive rigorous examination, and we were both on edge as Election Day approached.
Undergraduate students are becoming increasingly engaged in biology research to meet more rigorous academic criteria, to gain a competitive employment edge upon graduation, or for various other reasons (Lopatto, 2003, 2008; Laursen et al., 2010; Wei and Woodin, 2011).
Without years of cumulative injuries, the inevitable price of any long-term and rigorous exercise program, might the newer athletes have the edge?
He was the guy who sat down and was rigorous and focused and thoughtful and intelligent and cutting edge in how to use them and apply them and make himself better.
