Sentences with phrase «best remembered for»

Egan is best remembered for a court challenge he and his partner, Jack Nesbit, launched against the spousal allowance benefit under the Old Age Security Act in 1988.

In fairness, the conservative lawyer best remembered for her outspoken opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment never went away.

In 1872, after the Illinois Bar denied admission to Myra Bradwell, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the action in a decision best remembered for the concurrence of Justice Joseph P. Bradley, who notoriously wrote that» [t] he natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for the many occupations of civil life.»

Though best remembered for its opposition to the pervasive philosophy of David Hume, Scottish Common Sense philosophy....

Though best remembered for its opposition to the pervasive philosophy of David Hume, Scottish Common Sense philosophy is influential and evident in the works of Thomas Jefferson and late 18th century American politics.

History Painting Much less popular than landscape painting and portraiture, the tradition of history painting in America was carried on by the German - American painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 - 68) who is best remembered for his masterpiece Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Although noted for his portrait art as well as his genre painting and still lifes, he is best remembered for his landscape painting, whose detailed naturalism perfectly illustrates the principle that close attention to nature is the foundation of realist painting.

An important figure in American art of the 19th century, the German - born painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze lived and worked in both countries and is best remembered for his huge history painting Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

It is best remembered for its prescient introduction of young art from Berlin to the capital, giving many well - known German artists their first exposure in the UK.

Caustically political cartoons at David Zwirner reveal an unexpected side of Ad Reinhardt, best remembered for black abstract canvases.

Best remembered for The Singing Sculpture (1970), a «living sculpture» performance in which they danced to a recording of the 1931 musical hall song «Underneath the Arches».

Nancy Graves is probably best remembered for her life - size, ostensibly realistic camel sculptures.

Among the wider public, however, she will perhaps be best remembered for unleashing dozens of giant bronze spiders in galleries around the world, including, memorably, in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London.

By partially dismantling large - scale structures to make something entirely new, Matta - Clark defined an urban equivalent of Land Art, the massive earthwork installations created in remote settings during the 1960s and 1970s by Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, Richard Long, and, above all, Robert Smithson, best remembered for his Spiral Jetty in Utah's Great Salt Lake.

Pop Art is perhaps best remembered for the works of Andy Warhol (whose paintings of Campbell's Soup cans caused quite a stir) and Roy Lichtenstein.

He also published books and worked for philanthropic causes; he will perhaps be best remembered for his massive paintings combining ecstatic explosions of color with vast expanses of blazing white.

The garden imagery is perhaps what Abrahams is best remembered for but not because of the actual representation of the garden itself, instead it is more about the idea of the garden as the embodiment of the English vision.

Dorr is best remembered for her images of mothers and their children as recorded in her 1954 book, Mother and Child.

Though LeWitt worked in drawing, photography, printmaking, and sculpture over the course of his career, he is perhaps best remembered for his wall drawings whose linear instructions can be carried out by others thereby underscoring his lifelong commitment to collaborative artistic production.

Though Josef Albers is best remembered for passing on Bauhaus principles to an illustrious roster of students in the US, it is less known that his own art was closely connected with that of his wife, Anni.

Best remembered for his contributions to education, the documentary is divided into three main parts of Cooper's life: Getting a Start, Making a Fortune and DoingGood.

From his wikipedia page...» Accomplished as a designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker and poet, Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist.

De Kooning is best remembered for her gestural, semi-abstract painting inspired by the artistic milieu of the New York School.

Though best remembered for earning Moorman the title of the «Topless Cellist,» Opera Sextronique proved that the rules of music — that performers be clothed, that music sound nice, that no score be left to chance — needed to be broken.

Based on the 1989 animated Little Nemo film, this game is full of beautiful, vibrant levels, but is probably best remembered for teaching children that if you feed a frog candy, it will open its mouth and let you crawl inside it.

Taito's classic Bubble Bobble is an arcade - style action game best remembered for its catchy, arguably maddening music and sound effects.

The console, which was built from the same guts as SNK's MVS (Multi Video System) arcade hardware, is best remembered for its ludicrously steep price tag when it was released — it was priced at $ 649 dollars when it launched in 1990, while games were nearly half that price — as well as its staggering stable of fighting game franchises such as The King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown and Fatal Fury series.

Curry, perhaps best remembered for her work in the cult leader / serial killer drama «The Following,» is one of the...

Lowell Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicizing T. E. Lawrence a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia.

Tours of Slovakia by train are often best remembered for the spectacular view over Bratislava.

The Federation hired Gary Goyke, a former legislator and top lobbyist perhaps best remembered for his 1990 conviction on four felony counts of money laundering campaign contributions to state legislators.

Although World War I is best remembered for the Western Front, which ended in a trench warfare fought stalemate, the Eastern Front quickly turned into a German rout.

John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946) is best remembered for his writing on economics, most notably The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936).

Sabine Baring - Gould is now probably best remembered for penning the well - known hymn «Onward Christian Soldiers.»

Today, he is probably best remembered for his endowment of the world's first international study program, the Rhodes Scholarship, that enables exceptional students from former British colonies and Germany to study at Oxford University.

Born in 1820s France, Edmond and Jules Goncourt co-authored many novels and histories but they are best remembered for the journal they began together in 1851.

He is perhaps best remembered for Of Human Bondage, a semiautobiographical novel written in 1915, which was made into a film in 1934 and again in 1964.

But he is undoubtedly best remembered for Brave New World (1932), a vision of a future dystopica in which psychological conditioning supports a scientifically determined and immutable caste system.

He published a number of books (novels, poetry and short stories) but is best remembered for his five volume autobiography.

Get into a rhythm, though, and the Boss 302 is a fun and rewarding driver's car that recalls a time best remembered for the simplicity and purity of the machines it produced.

While the race is best remembered for a dramatic wheel - to - wheel tussle between Villeneuve and Arnoux for second position, JPJ's win was the first victory of many for Renault and notably for Renault engines - as of 2016, 168 Grands Prix have been won with Renault power.

Martin Pfundner unravels the truth / Harold Connolly: Artist And Illustrator — Although he is best remembered for his brochure illustrations for MG in the 1930s, Harold Connolly (1893 - 1973) provided illustrations for many other manufacturers and magazines, as Tony Clark recalls / Alpine Anniversary — In 1932, a team of three Talbots won the Coupe des Alpes.

Still, he's best remembered for his long - running rivalry with Tom «The Mongoose» McEwen, which inspired a series of beloved Hot Wheels models and opened the floodgates for the major - league sponsorship that transformed drag racing into a sports - entertainment leviathan.

Ian Andrews who owns the Le Mans Bentley in which Humphrey Cook part sets the scene / Private Entrant — Ian Connell who died recently drove a wide variety of cars at Brooklands but will be best remembered for campaigning ERA R6B.

Director - actor Clint Eastwood is best remembered for tough guy roles, but some of his best films echoed his love of jazz.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Wahlberg Stars as Real - Life Rocky in Overcoming - the - Odds Bio-Pic Veteran boxing fans are undoubtedly familiar with the exploits of «Irish» Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), the light - welterweight pugilist from Lowell, Massachusetts best remembered for a trio of memorable matches against the late Arturo Gatti.

Newly added to Warner Archive Instant's ebulliently eclectic grab bag of choices, Blackboard Jungle has always been best remembered for its opening number, the pivotal Bill Haley jump tune that heralded the rock & roll era, «Rock Around the Clock.»

Ultimately, this film will probably be best remembered for containing Whitney Houston's final performance.

But the year might be best remembered for a lot of films that quietly made an impact and still resonate three decades later.

Although best remembered for voicing Ackbar — his exclamation «It's a trap!»