Word: castor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pollock, Gorky, de Kooning, Still, Rothko, Kline, Motherwell?was recognized across the Atlantic, and the aesthetic colonization of Europe by New York art began in earnest. In this momentous shift of taste, energy and locus, a younger generation of American artists would be the legatees. Its symbolic twins, its Castor and Pollux, were Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns...
...years old are especially vulnerable because they put almost anything they pick up into their mouths. Next are the three-to-five-year-olds who, he says, "like to 'have a party' and serve just about whatever looks edible." Favorites, he says, are the pretty but poisonous castor beans, which are often strung into necklaces. "Do you know how easy it is for a child to pull one of the beans off and pop it into his mouth...
...CASTOR BEAN (entire plant but especially seeds): burning sensation in mouth. Swallowing two or more seeds may cause serious illness or death...
...have mellowed him. His fascisti are Verdi caricatures who can be deflated by a phonograph blaring out the Internationale from the bell tower in the town's main square as Mussolini begins a speech; the worst they do to the perpetrator is give him a humiliating dose of castor oil. The strangest and most wonderful things happen in the city of Amarcord, but they are all good things: A great ocean liner sails by the coast at night, lit up like it was sailing out of an electric forest; the whole population of the town piles into its boats...
...Rosalind (Pamela Martin), who has recently acquired what her mother characterizes as "the worst case of the hots I've ever seen," has got pregnant. She spends a lot of time at her fancy board ing school trying to give herself an abortion. When the usual dormitory methods - castor oil, Coca-Cola douch es, jumping from high places - do not work, she turns to Andy...