Word: busted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject of the work, separating it, by implication, from everything else ever painted by Velázquez, turning it from one painting among others into a dead whale on a flatcar, a curiosity to be gawped at. To most people visiting the Met, Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, bought amid vast publicity in 1961 for $2.3 million, is still "the two-million-dollar Rembrandt." It is removed, none too subtly, from all other Rembrandts. In the meantime, the clichés of art appreciation-"masterpiece," "genius," "deep humanity," "quality," "values" and the rest of that fustian...
...year was a bust for Joseph F. Timilty...
...messy. Not only messy in a physical sense, with all of Rose's glimmering, filthy rags and feathers, but also in a spiritual sense. The crowd scenes capture the alienated, frenetic mood of the late '60s. The Rose portrays the jarring disillusionment caused by the American Dream going bust...
...eight months after the bust the Faculty still had not bothered to act on the merger and merger proponents were getting sick of waiting around. The Radcliffe Quarterly ran an editorial in December 1969, chastizing professorial lethargy on the merger. "The Faculty on Arts and Sciences has seemed in no hurry to put the merger on its agenda," the editorial criticized...
...Yeah, why not? They can't bust you for what's already dissolved in your belly--no matter how weird you're acting...