Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voyage, is struck by "an enormous wall of water" and capsizes out of sight of land. Many passengers are killed immediately, others die slowly of injuries sustained during the first impact or in subsequent, secondary disasters such as floodings and explosions. The only slim hope of survival is to crawl torturously up through the gutted bowels of the ship toward the hull, where the steel is thinnest, hoping that after agonizing hours, help will arrive...
There is something indubitably menacing about the work of people like Vito Acconci, one of whose recent pieces was to build a ramp and crawl around below it, masturbating invisibly; or the young Los Angeles artist Chris Burden, who had himself manacled to the floor of an open garage, between live wires and buckets of water, so that (in possibility) anyone who cared to might kick over the pails and electrocute the artist. The sight of such gratuitous risk is a vulgar frisson for the spectators, and unlikely to appeal to those who believe that art and life interact best...
...proud of the way I look, because you spend $1,000 a week* to buy my clothes. I go down to Tiffany's, and these rings and things [he is wearing two big gold rings plastered with diamonds, a watch to match and an oversized topaz] just crawl up on my hands." Then it's donation time again, and Ike stresses, "I don't want to hear change rattling; it makes me nervous in the service." The buckets go out, and Ike, waiting only long enough to hear the rustle of the bills, grins and makes...
There is superficial evidence to bolster the notion that students have slowed to an activist crawl. For the past two years, SDS and PL have dropped further and further from sight. A student strike last Spring faded out in less than a week, and an attempt to revive it in May failed utterly...
...raising from the dead. "If ya feel, ya heal," is the way Jessy's laying on of hands proceeds, and others besides Lamy benefit too. A cripple, once healed by Jessy, passes the rest of the movie dragging himself from one scene to another, thankfully crying "I can crawl again...