Word: gooey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death itself, but the sugary coating that we give to it with doggy cemeteries and $20.000 gilt-edge Eternal Rest Coffins. In the same way, the horror of the political trial in this country is not that it tries to exterminate opposition but that it coats it over with gooey legal semantics or refuses to deal with it at all. Clear light and creative action cannot be seen through the democratic quagmire. And thus the logic of preferring a George Wallace who says what he thinks and is openly repressive to Nixon or Humphrey becomes immensely more clear. So does...
...been painted by Tintoretto, Rubens and Rembrandt, becomes in Tom Wesselmann's rendition a pink plastic Great American Nude in her bathtub, with gallerygoers playing unreluctant elders. Those meticulous Dutch still lifes of fruits and game are reflected in Pop's soup cans, candy canes, slabs of gooey cake, giant Coke bottles...
...gooey delivery and overly simple ideas sometimes obscure the fact, but Procaccino is on to something. When in 1965 he won election as city comptroller ? the city's second most powerful office ? it was fashionable for sassy reformers to ask: "What is a Mario Procaccino?" His answer: a Mario Procaccino is a tough, shrewd operator who treated his average-man approach
...STARTED about fifty years ago, when the movie industry came to California and brought a crew of undesirables along with it. The directors eventually fled to Italy, but the industry's gooey sludge hung around long enough to smile its way into political power and saddle the state with Ronnie and George...
...backing. On the hot table, they flattened ripples and smoothed out cracks, working the paint back together and touching it up where necessary with judicious "inpainting." At least once, the Kecks had to scoop out from the back of a picture underpaint that had never dried and was still gooey...