"The Dissolve" surveys an emerging, yet historically-rooted, impulse within contemporary artistic practice.
Its success can be traced to the growing interest of city folk who see the family owned farm as a way to get in touch with their agrarian roots or impulses.
I often find myself an unwitting American Ambassador, explaining our collective roots and impulses.
In the second and conflicting view, anti-Americanism is a largely groundless, irrational predisposition... an expression of a deeply rooted scapegoating impulse, a disposition more closely related to the problems... of those entertaining... it... than to the real attributes of American foreign policy, society or culture".
For now, this recognition faces strong competition from patriotic impulses, rooted in a social contract among nationals who have paid taxes over the years or performed military service to build or defend what they saw as exclusively theirs.
But Brown's choreography is not merely light and airy; there is frequently a sense of attack, though such movements seem to have impulses rooted deep within the body; the result is a fullness, a roundness, even with a sharp motion.
In a recent essay, Hoagland made the case for meanness in poetry as "metaphysical straight-talk," and there is something refreshing about his willingness to expose his crummier impulses: rooting for a white tennis player, hating his detractors "from the core of my donkey soul".
Once you've uncovered the root of the impulse, look for a healthier way to satisfy the emotional or physical need you've identified.
The impulse took root in Russian Constructivism and flourished in Europe with Dada, Surrealism and the Bauhaus.
Even so, as he filled cavities and repaired root canals, some vague impulse was nudging him in another direction.
For generations, Mr. Wilson's family had followed the westward migration in search of its own dreams, and as that impulse took root in his imagination, the waves rolled past the horizon and the hotrods became vehicles of transcendence.
