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ONCE AGAIN TIME HAS FAILED TO PRESENT anything approaching an objective view of the proceedings in our nation's capital. Robert Hughes' rantings about the Republican assault on the "arts" is more liberal drivel. To equate the pseudo art funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with Thomas Jefferson's library or the Lincoln Memorial shows clearly the inability of the left to discriminate between junk and true greatness. DOUG KLASSEN Tempe, Arizona AOL: Ferd94...
...watching a fuzzy tape of Nauman overstretching a simple phallic pun by very slowly "manipulating" a long fluorescent tube. You don't so much enjoy this show as endure it; you get through it. Then, in the coffee shop, you peruse the catalog and find such hyperbolic drivel as this, by co-curator Kathy Halbreich: "Like the great 17th century metaphysical poet John Donne, who, faced with a world of expanding information and concomitant chaos, mastered paradox through meditation.Bruce Nauman creates art that is a drama of a particularly physical sort of imagining." Well, yes: remember Black Balls, 1969, eight...
Lennox scores surprising success with some of the more unusual and difficult songs on the album. Her rendition of Bob Marley's "Waiting In Vain" is a prime example. In the hands of a lesser artist, the song could easily have degenerated into imitation-reggae drivel, but Lennox handles this material expertly. She completely recreates the song without losing sight of the original spare, beautiful Marley melody. Lennox's funky bass-driven version of "Train In Vain" also shows her gift for creative interpretation. She remains faithful to the original Clash tune, even as she adds her own brand...
...Crimson piece belittles the content of the work as "pathos-laden drivel," summarily writing off all who expressed themselves as "self-serious Asian college students looking to add excitement to their petty bourgeois existence." As you chose not to engage the piece as a work of art, i.e. giving it a critical review in the Arts pages, you attack and insult the population of Asian American students at Harvard-Radcliffe on a directly personal level...
...being honest--that is to say, by conceding that most 'artists' aren't aiming to be 'good citizens'--Tom Hanks cut through the bloated drivel that characterizes most posturing 'artist-citizens.' He confirmed and glorified the supremacy of the green-back over guts, of the savings account over scruples...