Word: dada
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right to her child. Most believe equally fervently in the child's right to the best possible home -- and in their minds, that means a home where the child will grow up heterosexual. In Tyler's case, conservatives seized on the fact that the boy occasionally called April "Dada" as a sign of gender confusion. Sharon says he couldn't pronounce "April," so he called her "Addle," which evolved into "Dada" -- a term he also used for many other people. Like most two-year-olds, she adds, Tyler is just beginning to learn about everything...
...county circuit judge in Virginia ruled last week that a woman's lesbianism made her an unsuitable parent. Sharon Bottoms lost custody of her two-year-old son to her mother Kay Bottoms. Kay complained that the boy called Sharon's lover "Dada...
...began as a painter of Expressionist heads, vaguely along the lines of Munch's The Scream -- but it was certainly helped by a year's visit to the German city of Dusseldorf in 1964-65. There Hesse came to know the work of Joseph Beuys and the post-Dada Fluxus group. From that point on -- accelerated by her admiration for artists like Dubuffet and Claes Oldenburg -- she grew more and more interested in whatever did not pertain to sculpture as commonly understood. She backed away from sculpture's "male" rigidity, idealism and rhetorical clarity, which included the high-style rhetoric...
...Their employees are so sweetly innocent one longs for Hoffa's Teamsters to come in and give them mean lessons. But everyone's main function is to trigger special effects and lend scale to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti's overweening sets, which sometimes quote wittily from the modernist tradition (Dada, etc.) but also overuse the pachyderm motif at the heavy heart of this disastrously miscalculated movie...
...perky facade of '50s bourgeois life. It was where they could get clued in to the fatuousness of civics-book sanctimony, to the permutations of suburban phoniness, to grown-up dissembling and insincerely sincere hucksterism of all kinds. Mad infected children with a healthy streak of antiestablishment skepticism, a Dada- dissectionist attitude toward all media. Where else could you see Donald Duck baffled by his three fingers and white gloves...