Word: coarsest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result, the human figure, which for thousands of years was the container and vehicle of art's most exalted as well as its coarsest intentions, languishes in late-modern American painting like a vestigial sign, atrophied. This is not because abstract art attained its Utopian ends of making representation obsolete -- we all know it didn't -- but because the culture forgot that there was anything to do with bodies and faces except photograph them. It's as though America, maddened and warped by its own erotomania, its obsession with and fear of the flesh, and further blocked by its newly...
...show begins right where the last one left off, with the plucky orphan gamboling around a Christmas tree with her adoptive plutocrat. In steams a social-welfare commissioner with a bad attitude, played by Alene Robertson as a cross between Bella Abzug and Shelley Winters at their coarsest. The adoption is invalid, she tells Daddy Warbucks, because he doesn't have a wife. The rest of the show is devoted to marrying him off and extracting him from the tentacles of the adhesive and ambitious commissioner. Along the way father faces financial ruin, daughter runs away and turns hobo...