Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nakian has nothing but contempt for young sculptors, of both pop and minimal persuasions. Nonetheless, he shares many contemporary traits with them. His work is massive, blunt, coarse, vulgar, infested with deliberate clumsiness -like much of pop. At the same time, it can be cryptic and withdrawn almost to the point of paranoia, challenging the viewer to discover much of its earthy sensuality for himself...
...Brennan-came a blistering objection written by Brennan: "We cannot permit fears of 'riots' and 'civil disobedience' generated by slogans like black power to divert our attention from what is here at stake-arming the state courts with the power to punish as a 'contempt' what they otherwise could not punish at all." Although the state is unlikely to seek extradition, King plans to go to jail in Alabama next month...
...does not operate with the rigor of a court of law, and neither the decision to investigate Powell's eligibility nor the resolution that excluded him specified any reason why he might not be qualified. Basically, however, members cited Powell's misuse of Congressional funds and privileges, and the contempt charges arising from a libel suit against him in New York...
Compared to the libel suit and attending contempt charges, Powell's alleged misuse of funds provides Congress with stronger grounds for expelling him but a much weaker basis for excluding him. Even the moderate alternative proposed by the House investigating committee, which included fining Powell, could be contested as an unconstitutional bill of attainder. Congress's soundest action against Powell would have been to sue him in court...
Crawford's reverence for his own talent is exceeded only by his contempt for his own life. Even career stuntmen quake at his sight gags. In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, he was almost bisected by a chariot. In How I Won the War, an unreleased film with Beatle John Lennon, he is nearly mashed by a German tank. In Black Comedy, eight times a week for four months, he has skidded down staircases on his heel, hurtled into doors face first, crashed to the floor entangled in a phone wire...