Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silk-screen enlargement of a stroboscopic photo by Gjon Mili of a walking nude, done in imitation of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which was itself based on an earlier sequential photo by Marey. The image stutters backward through technological time. But then it also looks like the grief-stricken Adam and Eve in Masaccio's Expulsion from Eden, and that turns the enormous grainy effigy of John Kennedy (then dead), with its repeated pointing hand, into a type of vengeful deity. Rauschenberg has had great moments of social irony. "The day will come," Edmond de Goncourt wrote...
...majority of Japanese, though, joined Premier Takeo Miki in offering gokurosama (special thanks) to the shy, scholarly Emperor for his long reign. In Tokyo, Hirohito responded by recalling the pleasant and sad memories of 50 years, mentioning especially his grief for "the great number of victims of the last war and their families...
...Enraged, near tears, he protests furiously, crying out at the awkward and indifferent Nixon delegates. "Look at me, look at your war!" The television cameras catch sight of him, Roger Mudd of CBS approaches, and for two minutes of national television all the pent up shame and rage and grief gushes...
...topped coffin planted in a bed of bright green grasses, layered with formal yellow chrysanthemums and red hibiscuses in full bloom. Dominating that end of the hall, above rows of pine and cypress, was a giant portrait of the Chairman. A white-lettered streamer read, "We mourn with deepest grief the great leader and teacher, Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
Heading the receiving line was First Vice Chairman and Premier Hua Kuo-feng. His face was drawn and racked with grief. He looked older than when I had seen him up close during the visit of former President Nixon last February. Hua then appeared to be imperturbable and placid. Despite the anguish on his face, Hua's gestures were certain and he shook hands firmly. Yet the immensity of the challenge he faces was etched into his features, lines of tension and shock betraying deep emotion and pain...