Word: camel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teeth in the T-Zone. The Women paintings are bathed in influences - 1930s Picassos and 1950s cigarette ads (that smile was originally a Camel "T-zone" clipped from a back cover of TIME), Cycladic sculpture and Mesopotamian idols, the "archaic smile" distorted into a toothy leer. They are also drenched in evocative rhetoric about monstrous, insatiable female deities. The Women have been compared, severally and together, to the destroying Kali, to Robert Graves' White Goddess, to Alban Berg's Lulu, to Lilith and Marlene and Marilyn and Mona Lisa. Now obviously these drawings do have their demonic aspect...
...with student disturbances. In the wake of the 1970 Cambodian invasion and the deaths of four students at Kent State, he had successfully steered Ohio U. through the chaotic aftermath with a minimum of violence. But the recent events, he said last week, were "the straw that broke the camel's back...
...more than that. The issue is: why the hell did Nixon never say, 'My God, you mean to say this was being done in the name of the White House?' We've been hearing for months with each new revelation that it was the straw that would break the camel's back. But this really is the straw." Added Smith: "People are reading the transcripts. We are now hearing from the bedrock conservatives in Arizona, and they do not like what they are reading. They are telling us: 'We can no longer defend this man.' The only thing that...
...shrew, and not the camel...
...Griggs, who has logged 7,000 miles touring the drought area: "There are experts with many years' experience in the Sahel who see no end in sight to the cycle of drought, famine and death. The Sahel's Tuareg nomads have a saying, 'When the camel collapses, the game is over.' For them, now clustered in refugee camps and having seen their camels die of starvation, the game is all but over...