Word: bluntest
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...become the chief strategist for Texas Governor George W. Bush's presidential campaign, his client had a non-negotiable demand: Rove had to get rid of the lucrative direct-mail business he had run for 18 years. Bush, Rove once told me, had put it in the bluntest terms. "If I do this," Rove recalled Bush telling him, "I want you free and clear...
...finely balanced theological universe, however, it's hard to give in one area without taking away elsewhere. In this case, the loser is baptism--or at least the rite's broadest, bluntest definition. Limbo was conceived in the Middle Ages to solve a problem relating to original sin, the inherited stain of Adam and Eve's disobedience. Jesus' death on the Cross is understood to have relieved humanity of the burden of that sin, an immunity Catholicism still considers activated for each human as he or she unites with Christ in baptism...
...most merciless cultural products of the 1960s, Carl Andre's 6 x 6 Den Haag Steel Lock, a mat of 36 steel plates arranged to form a black square. First assembled in 1968, it remains to this day one of the bluntest things that have ever presumed to radiate the aura of an art object--which may be what was bothering a recent visitor to the show "A Minimal Future? Art as Object: 1958-1968." The art lover, a guy who looked to be in his early 30s, with shoulder-length hair and a porkpie hat, gave the work...
...voilá: merde - an outcome that co-opts even the bluntest judgment about contemporary art. "We spend all this love, all this money and manpower," says Delvoye with anarchic glee, "and we get something everybody flushed away this morning." He has had to turn down several requests from science museums that just don't get it: Cloaca isn't meant as a didactic take on the human digestive tract. He insists it is a highly pungent comment on the folly of human achievement. Or as New York art critic Adrian Dannatt puts it, "a reductio ad absurdum of Freud...