Word: cas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have their demonic aspect - the air of Woman, circa 1951, with her staring black pupils, bared teeth and cuirass-like breasts, testifies to that; they are not just formal exercises. It certainly seems that De Kooning finds it hard to imagine women in other than two aspects: either the cas-tratrix or the pink, spraddling floozy who flounders dumbly around the Long Island shore line in his latest works...
...then, in an age full of descriptions of good and bad trips, should Cas-taneda's sensations be of any more interest than anyone else's? First, because they were apparently conducted within a system?albeit one he did not understand at the time?imposed with priestly and rigorous discipline by his Indian guide. Secondly, because Castaneda kept voluminous and extraordinarily vivid notes. A sample description of the effects of peyote: "In a matter of instants a tunnel formed around me, very low and narrow, hard and strangely cold. It felt to the touch like a wall...
...morose about his future, and feels that he has no place left to go in America. "Watts, Harlem, Newark, Washington, D.C.-they are all Atti-cas," he says, shrugging his shoulders, "except it's minimum security there." He has little faith in American justice. "Justice?" he protests. "Look at it. Look at Hoffa. Look at Lieutenant Calley. And look at the Harlem Four -eight years without bail...