Sentences with phrase «era squareness»

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Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / «Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s,» the Whitney's trenchant exhibition of American work, immediately recalls the Reagan era, when bluffness trumped irony and a turbocharged version of squareness — razor - sharp creases and collar bars, coke - fueled hostile takeovers, money in the service of comfort and status, strategic peremptoriness — shoved aside the counterculture.