Word: cockroach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Scifeddine '87 recalled a four-inch-long cockroach he found in the closet of one Yard room. Despite a thorough dousing with various industrial-strength chemicals, the bug scurried away into a crevice...
...uneven. This is fascinating, but unlikely. Yet e.e. cummings' poems could have been composed on nothing but a typewriter, and many novelists have used the lower case and run-on words to convey streams of consciousness. Don Marquis' archys life of mehitabel made a poet of a cockroach who was unable to press the shift...
...student was sleeping soundly in his Columbia University room when the six legged visitor awoke him. The cockroach travelled so far into his ear that he could not dislodge it, he said. When it moved I was really in bad pain, said the student who asked not to be named...
...residents of Lowell House have been subjected to 46 false alarms so far this fall. While living in the midst of the renovations has been convenient, the smoke detector's seeming inability to distinguish between a six-alarm inferno and a cockroach breaking wind has become an intolerable imposition. It is incredible that something that disrupts the live of four hundred and fifty people has been allowed to continue this long...
...fall. If the cliché of "modern sculpture" used to be a piece of stone chewing gum with a hole in it, and that of "modern painting" was a canvasful of drips, then the cliché of "video art" is a grainy closeup of some U.C.L.A. graduate rubbing a cockroach to pulp on his left nipple for 16 minutes while the sound track plays amplified tape hiss, backward. Video art has not yet shaken off its reputation as clumsy, narcissistic and obscure...