Word: claw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jumbos Claw...
...space, but they are countered by weirdly eccentric shapes that are frankly frivolous, at least unpredictable. California's William Geis, the gutsiest of the out-of-town recruits unearthed by the traveling scouts, displays Perusal's Oar, a leprously painted dream abstract crowned by a monster lobster claw. Another out-of-town eccentric, Walter McNamara from Reno, also displays an amusing work. His Soft Ware with Non-Tongue Plaster looks like nothing on earth except perhaps a telephone switchboard that some slap-happy electrician has partially torn apart...
...ever really considered the possibility of personal guilt. In the best 19th century patriotic tradition, the Krupps-like weapons makers all over Europe-always worked with their own government and backed the Fatherland against the world. When Hitler's acts began to depart from even the tooth and claw morality accepted in earlier times, extending to calculated genocide, they made no moral distinction, possibly, in part, out of sheer inertia. Unlike most Germans, moreover, Alfried was perhaps powerful enough to have restrained the Führer. He did nothing. Long after the Nuremberg tribunal sentenced him to twelve years...
...before the Vice President can establish himself as his own man. But Humphrey is beginning to score some points by promoting himself as a man of peace. At almost every stop, he notes that the American eagle on the presidential seal clutches a large olive branch in its right claw. With some oratorical license, he laments that the eagle on the vice-presidential seal holds a mere sprig of olive. "You let me have a handful," he tells crowds, "and believe me, you'll have peace...
...universality that reaches beyond ethnic boundaries. It is a coda of rage and savagely honest self-lashing reminiscent of the performances of the late Lenny Bruce. No detail is varnished, no lust or act nice-Nellied as Portnoy complains, clowns and laments in his desperate efforts to claw his way to sanity. The result is a spontaneous emotional release of enormous authenticity and power...