Word: flibbertigibbet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...introduction of eugenics into what was supposed to be a story of Sandra and Jack's illicit sexual shenanigans may seem jarring. That is Weldon's intention. Once again she has written a memorable novel about a woman who tries to be a flibbertigibbet and falls short -- collapses, in fact, between the demands of spirit and flesh into the gloriously common muddle in between...
Moore has developed a subspecialty in this sort of high-camp Gulf ephemeron: for New Orleans he designed the Piazza d'Italia and the snazziest part of the 1984 World's Fair. His Galveston arch, a pair of towers connected by wire mesh, is more of the same, a flibbertigibbet accretion of painted waves, plywood sea creatures, banners, arches, gables, windows, lights, action. Aubry's rigid canopy of pleated gold fiber glass, topped by a big wooden fish, is baffling but unequivocally vulgar--like kitsch from another planet, or a collaboration between Claes Oldenburg and Cher. Powell's arch, with...