Word: bloomin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Britain this summer is pretty bloomin' bloomin...
...lace-trimmed cotton knickers displayed by Cockney Comic Marty Feldman once belonged to Queen Victoria. A collector of 19th century furniture and art, Feldman figured that nothing would be more Victorian than the royal underpants, so when he spotted them at a London auction he laid out a bloomin' $320 for the bloomers. Besides, patriotic to the nines, he "wanted to preserve part of England's heritage and to keep an Englishman's hands on Queen Victoria's drawers." She would not have been amused...
...gravitated toward a kind of abstracted nature-imagery. Minimal art he now finds understated and unimportant. "I think of my work as more flamboyant, which you're not supposed to use in minimal work. Instead of being unimportant, my work is very outrageous." His large floor piece, Bloomin', is an artificial wooden garden: panels of coarsely cut building board lie flat as grass or fold into flowerlike cones; sprouts of timber push upward. "I want the color to look like growth, living and flowers. Brown is the earth, green for growth, bright colors for mature flowers." Spring unfolds...