Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike some others who have spent much of their careers amidst the eerie abstractions of doomsday and deterrence, Smith has preserved a sense of irony, and he never quite loses sight of geopolitical absurdities. "The strategic competition was not unlike a game of ticktacktoe," he writes. "If one knows how...
But that didn't deter droves from watching the men compete in a profoundly boring meet. The spectators paid their money, watched the meet, then left in a great exodus before the really exciting meet of the day began at 4 p.m. when the women's team swam the University...
It has been easy enough in the past to hold Dean Epps responsible for this continuation, but it now seems that he is as bored with the matter as anyone else. The CRR never meets, he says, but "it was established by Faculty legislation and it has never been abolished...
Already there are a few rumblings. Says Russ Cook, U.A.W. district committeeman at GM's Buick plant in Flint: "If we don't get smarter and start combatting the machines, we will be cannibalizing ourselves and competing against one another for jobs." Adds Larry Jones, a Chrysler metal...
In a recent article in Artforum magazine, critic Ronny H. Cohen describes a contemporary trend in art that is similarly aggressive, one that may have evolved from Dada by way of Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s. Cohen dubs the work of the artists "Energism" and states that...