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...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...
...Israel lobby in Washington howled in protest, and First Friend James Baker, though hardly an apologist for Shamir, privately told his boss in the bluntest terms that he had better learn to choose his words more carefully...
During the four-day congress the Soviet leader heard some of the bluntest public criticism to date of his policies. Economic reformer Nikolai Shmelev complained that "as far as the economy is concerned, we have built a madhouse and continue to live according to the laws of a madhouse." Conservative Deputies warned that society was "slipping into a swamp even more boggy than in the stagnation period." At one point Deputy Teimuraz Avaliani, from a Siberian coal-mining region, even urged the parliamentarians "not to vote for Gorbachev under any circumstances...
...spokesman said the agency "categorically denies" Blandon's accusation. But Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York, one of Noriega's bluntest antagonists, said he found Blandon's charges eminently credible. "The fact is," he said, "that Noriega -- this thug and racketeer -- has been on the payroll of the CIA for many years and remained there, I understand, until rather recently...