Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course on the media for hyping the Monica scandal and blotting out the Republican message. Said one member who listened in: "It was very lame and not credible. He just doesn't get it. He's the problem. I don't see how you get over this bump in the road without getting...
...While at a party in DeWolfe, you bump into him (literally) and spill strawberry daiquiri all over his treasured DHA sweatshirt...
...Walking through the Yard, you bump into that varsity hottie in front of Boylston...
...Pollock's own woundingly absent father. Thus the future avant-gardist had for a mentor a man who hated abstract art. But when Pollock came under Benton's tutelage, he wasn't aiming at abstraction. Benton's way of composing, with its heftily twisting figures and buckling, scoop-and-bump space, was based on 16th century Mannerism--Midwestern El Greco and Tintoretto; he even adapted the Mannerist device of reducing the figures to geometrical dolls, sometimes modeling them in clay. This vehemence, locked up as a system, appealed to Pollock as a container for his own emotional flailing. Though some...
...actually get lost in them. Yet they are not so easy to read. The change of curvature is continuous, and it destabilizes you. In some sculptures the difficulty of knowing what sort of space you are in almost amounts to queasiness; you misjudge your distance from the wall and bump into it; you have to look up through the open top to orient yourself again. The physical experience of the piece can't be predicted from its geometry. Those slabs of steel, leaning together and held in place solely by their own weight, play upon your body's sense...