Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good Is Modern. At 80, Goldberg took up sculpture. He approached his new career in a satiric frame of mind. Disgusted with the avantgarde, Goldberg, who was haunted by modernity, wrote recently in Esquire: "Today you buy a bucket of paint and you're an artist, caress a microphone and you're a singer, gyrate your crotch and you're a dancer, take off your clothes and you're an actor, dump a ton of cement on the floor and you're a sculptor. Doing your own thing is all right for a genius...
...What did Sal eat more of than she put in the bucket...
...music insists on gut-bucket lyrics that embody the simple, almost parabolic forces behind rural southern culture. In the liquor-making, nigger-hating, broad-fucking, communities that spawned country music they wanted to hear it straight and with guts and if that meant doing away with qualifying, complicating details that...
...just another Friday morning in the handsome executive offices of a large East Chicago aluminum company. Sharon, the receptionist, glanced up from her switchboard to see "a nice-looking man, about 35, dressed in slacks, a lightweight jacket and sports shirt." He was carrying a bucket-but then, as Sharon explained, "people come in all the time with samples to analyze...
...visitor handed her an envelope. "Would you please see that the president gets this?" he asked. Then he stepped back and announced: "Here's a gift for all of you from the Aurora area." Across the gleaming black slate lobby floor sloshed the contents of his bucket: a bouillabaisse of river muck and the carcasses of fish, a rat and a bird. The Fox, mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel of pollution, had struck again. His note explained all. A long doggerel rewrite of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, it ended with the lines: "We have begged you for mercy...