Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tired of working at odd jobs around London, songwriter/guitarist Pat Gribben, once of the Starjets, founded the Adventures in 1982. With the addition of Terry Sharpe on vocals, Spud Murphy, former Starjets producer and then road manager for Stiff Little Finger and The Boomtown Rats, on percussion, Pat's wife Eileen on backing vocals, tambourines, etc., and Tony Ayre on bass, the band began writing, rehearsing and touring...
...four smaller children file in from the outer room to present themselves to their mother before going to bed. They stall, ask for snacks. Benjamin whines about a cut finger...
...finger. I had her like this, you know, my arm around her head, and my hand was in her face, scratching her. I wanted to hurt her bad. The night before, I polished my fingernails to make them hard. Her father charged me with assault. That's stupid. But I got in trouble in school, in court, and my mother, you know, she cried when the cops came. Mothers get so nervous. But that's stupid. They wouldn't lock...
...threw me against the window, which cracked, but I didn't fall out. And my mother started screaming and pushed me to one side, and I started screaming, and my other sisters started screaming. It's always like that. When we lived on 39th Street, my brother put his finger in my eye. I had an operation...
...Rhapsody today seems a mite too garrulous and fiddly to be the masterpiece many critics take it for, it remains an essential key to the shift of taste that took New York art into the '80s. In a catalog essay to this show, Art Critic Roberta Smith puts her finger on the peculiar character of Bartlett's work: "a series of reflections--of the world, of other people's art . . . a sense of manic cerebralism and arbitrariness, a distance, even an indifference . . . riddled with sophisticated obviousness." The work is set up like an automatic mechanism, but hand-painted...