Word: glues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grade, and plays the lute. When she studied in Germany she and a banjo player put together a series of concerts and lectures on American folk music. While working at Tanglewood for the BSO she frequented the shop of a violin maker because she enjoyed its atmosphere of glue pots and violin parts. However Mayman does not own one of the musical appliances which most people take for granted--a record player--largely because she associates it with being settled...
...societies that had led to World War I. Thereupon, Duchamp renounced canvas forever. He became a fixture of the New York art scene, painted on glass, composed musical pieces by making a random choice of notes, and dropped pieces of string, then froze them to a board with a glue...
Gael Greene, New York magazine's Insatiable Critic: "When I want meat, I want a steak. But when I want a hamburger, I want a Big Mac. It has all those disreputable things-cheese made of glue, Russian dressing three generations removed from the steppes, and this very thin patty of something that is close enough to meat. It's an incredibly decadent eating experience. And I love the malts-thick, sweet and ice-cold. They're better than if they were real...
Before being silenced by their court-appointed lawyers, both had freely admitted that over the past three years they had lured the boys to paint-and glue-sniffing parties at the home of Dean Arnold Corll, 33. There the victims - mostly runaways from the Hous ton area (see box) - were homosexually assaulted and then shot or strangled...
Many of their finds were hitchhikers whom they picked up. They would invite the youths to Corll's home for "parties" of paint and glue sniffing. There the victims would be handcuffed to a specially constructed plywood board, sexually abused, and finally strangled or shot with Corll's .22-cal. pistol...