Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Arneson, 51, whose favorite subject is his own head, blown up to more than Roman proportions and subjected to various odd indignities. In Splat, 1978, it has taken a bucketful of liquid white clay full in the face, like a vaudevillian copping a pie; a disembodied brown finger wipes the gunk away from his right eye socket. Arneson's mocking self-monuments are carried through with vast gusto and panache, and his technical resources seem limitless; besides, his formal ambitions are clear enough, below the funky surface. Even so, his work has a way of wandering off into...
...beginning she clammed up entirely, would not go to school, would not leave the house. She expressed herself in art. First she painted a hand, which she called the "hand of fate." It is dark green, almost black, outlined in white with watery blue streaks running along the index finger. It looks more like a bay than a hand. To its right she put: "And in their death they commanded us to live." Then she wrote a poem. Its opening and closing stanzas are the same...
...anti-McCarthy reporter for the Milwaukee Journal during the 1950s. Bayley could have pointed an accusing finger at his colleagues from the era but instead, he explains the failures of the press sympathetically. Journalists made news out of McCarthy's charges, he says, because they came from a United States Senator. Papers desiring to investigate the accuracy of McCarthy's charges usually ran up against a shortage of time and research facilities. In any event, Bayley notes, news analysis was generally left to the editorial pages in those days...
More important, however, Trow fails to delve any deeper into the causes of the emptiness of popular culture. Loneliness, after all, has always existed, but talk shows haven't. Trow's sole explanation, which consists of his pointing a finger at the marketplace and calling it a "con," is facile. Certainly, popular culture has its moguls and manipulators who know how to supply the required "comfort," even how to mold the public yearning for it. Yet one must wonder if the success of the transaction, the apparent (if usually silent) satisfaction of the consumers, does not suggest a widespread desire...
...population, and they risked being boycotted by voters who fear being murdered if their name appears on a list having anything to do with politics. Under the new system, a voter can present his government-issued ID card at any voting booth in his home province, get his finger marked with indelible ink, and vote. Bustamante insisted that a voter could not remove the ink and vote more than once "unless he amputates a finger, and if he does, I'll be delighted to let him vote two times, even ten." The major problem, Bustamante added, will be getting...