Word: allenate
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...also a time of revolt against the conventionality of postwar America - that obligatory wholesomeness captured in Malcolm Morley's Beach Scene, with its picture-perfect family frolicking on the sand while the father's eerily bestial smile hints at the dark underbelly of the American dream. As writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac raged against bourgeois conformism, and the nation's youth turned on to sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the Pop Art movement provided the technicolor iconography of a full-fledged counterculture...
...seven-year-old Atlanta boy will probably forget one day what he did to earn the Rev. Arthur Allen Jr.'s ire. But the memory of the punishment that followed will surely live on. Police say three of Allen's flock, heeding the pastor's teaching, held the boy down in the House of Prayer church while a fourth whipped him with a switch. On Feb. 28, when the boy told a teacher he was in pain, she found welts on his body...
...children services say they had offered the parents, all House of Prayer members, an alternative: they could agree to refrain from corporal punishment for two days during an investigation into the children's safety. All the parents refused. TV reporters captured harrowing images of crying children being dragged away. Allen and five of his 130 adherents were arrested on charges that they participated in or encouraged the beating of the two kids...
...Meanwhile, back onstage, TV host Byron Allen introduced a couple of young children who spoke eloquently of how it felt to be taken for granted in an unfair world. Moments later Allen reappeared to introduce a young boyband called No Authority, just signed up by Madonna's record label...
...accurate that an FBI agent who has worked with her likens the results to "something drawn from a photograph." Among her creations: the iconic portrait of the Unabomber - a dead ringer for a young Ted Kaczynski, as well as the near mirror-image drawing of Polly Klaas' killer, Richard Allen Davis. Her secret? A diligent reading - and application - of memory science...