Word: brillo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nice guy on the move. Ultimate coalition builder and social magnet. Great thick brillo-hair...
...from the commercial culture of America before the Pop artists were even born. The classic one is Odol, 1924, in which the bent- neck bottle of a mouth disinfectant is presented, plain and planar -- name brand, slogan and all -- as its own icon, the ancestor of Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes. But Davis' work was grounded in Cubism, as that of the later artists was not; the Cubist scheme of fragments of media culture and packaging (newspaper headlines, labels and so on), absorbed into a painterly matrix, gave Davis his way of handling the American cityscape. It was brasher than...
Which is precisely why conservatives cannot afford to discredit themselves and their ideas with insensitive and hateful behavior. Morally reprehensible, such antics are also self-defeating. How can the Review expect anyone to take seriously its principled skepticism of affirmative action when the paper mocks the "Brillo pad" hairstyle of a Black professor...
JACKIE MASON: BRAND NEW. Well, not really. The Brillo-haired rabbi turned comic has been doing the same basic Borscht Belt act for decades, but he seems to have a tireless capacity for self-resuscitation. A year after a sitcom flop on ABC, a much publicized racial slight of New York City Mayor David Dinkins, and an embarrassing paternity suit, Mason is on the comeback trail, ! windmilling in three directions. His latest book, How to Talk Jewish, is to be published in January. His weekly talk show debuts on cable in December with a novel solution to the perennial problem...