Word: dump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Especially in the first few weeks of freshman year, our home state plagues us, putting a chill on every budding relationship. Personally, I'd like to dump Garden State toxic waste all over the next person who uses that "What exit?" line on me again...
...sweet irreverence that was entirely Schwitters' own are knotted together as a gift to the future. The idea of the urban poet as a scavenger was by no means new. It had been around since Baudelaire's ragpicker in the 1860s; in 1882 Van Gogh praised the city dump of the Hague as "a real paradise for the artist." But no one, not even Picasso with his cubist collages, did more to expand and discipline this field of imagery than Schwitters. Consequently, there is something persistently grand as well as tenacious, antic and rebellious about this long-overdue show...
Scorsese, who has known Spielberg since 1971, detects "a pressure in Steven to top himself. The audience sees his name on a project and expects more and bigger. That's a tough position to be in." And Spielberg, who boasts that "I can dump on me better than anybody else," confesses that "I find my leg stuck in the trap I built. To have directed a movie like Young Sherlock Holmes would have gnawed that leg right...
...place she drags me to turns out not to be no dump but more like a castle. Couple of Quaker brothers name of Smiley started it in 1869. Goes by the moniker of Mohonk Mountain House. It's 80 or 90 miles north of the city (I say the city because we all say the city, but if it's not your city I should say New York City). The place and the grounds are a real knockout, and the folks are nuts about plants, which grow in the ground, instead of in pots, where everybody knows God intended them...
Would we tolerate it if America's mothers gathered together and announced that because we had been eating a little too much pumpkin pie recently, they--as a group--were going to dump an extra half-cup of sugar into every one of their apple pies...