Word: caving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...facts, ma'am, a fogie's guide to Xanadu. Grinspoon has collected and synthesized a great deal of information, and he gives ample to time to the anti-weed agenda. The author quotes a few scary tidbits from the FBI: "He [the user] becomes a fiend with savage or 'cave man' tendencies. His sex desires are aroused and some of the most horrible crimes result..." Horrible crimes, not the least of which were Dingo boots, halter tops and the Average White Band...
When I gazed at the horses in the cave paintings, I thought, ``What's Marc Chagall doing in the Stone...
Your article gives the impression that the cave paintings will ``greatly enrich our picture of Cro-Magnon life and culture.'' They will not. As you noted, there are numerous problems in interpreting art. While the Chauvet images may be great art, they reveal very little about ancient societies. Rather, our knowledge of these cultures has been generated by a century of painstaking excavation and research. From these efforts, we have constructed a relatively sophisticated picture of the behavior of pre- and early-modern human societies. Cave art provides little more than an impressive visual supplement to this. I wonder whether...
...find the newly discovered cave paintings artistically far below those of Lascaux and much less vivid. Something is wrong. In my opinion they are false...
...history of art must be rewritten to acknowledge the brilliant artists who elegantly transformed the appearance of creatures into an abstraction of red spots in the Chauvet cave...