Word: goddammitiveness
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...forms. No gimmicks or gadgetry here, thank you. Carefully avoiding dehumanization and de-sexualization (in the painterly tradition), I strove to leave out as many myriad forms and colors as was possible. When finished, the wall seemed to cry out: "My name is Pat O'Connor-and goddammit, I can paint as well as Helen Frankenthaler...
...girlish pique in 1967. The artist was feeling resentful about the considerable popular and critical acclaim enjoyed by "certain hard-edge painters." Thus "the human edge" becomes a play on the expression "hard-edge." The whole painting says in bold and aggressive tones: "My name is Helen Frankenthaler-and goddammit, I know how to paint just as well as the boys...
...either go inside yourself or become a clown. In seventh grade, I played Tiny Tim because I was the shortest kid in the class. Because a ninth-grader dared me, in front of all the parents at the Christmas show, I said: 'God bless us every one, Goddammit.' I got suspended for that. In high school, the other guys had hair on their chests and played football. I played tennis, had a big nose and acne so bad my face looked like a rifle range...
...forces comparable to Little Rock. George has already declared: "You know what we're goin' to tell them when they ask us to give 'em more in the schools of Alabama this fall? I'll tell you what we'll tell 'em: 'Goddammit...
...writers' conference, for example, Cohn once bawled out his staff for creating an anachronism in an Arabian Nights fantasy. "It's all through this script, goddammit!" he complained. "You've got 'em all saying 'Yes, siree.' " The producer read the offending page on Cohn's desk. "But, Harry," he explained, "that's 'Yes, sire...