Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawing in the Bergen collection, captures the process by which the artist evolved what he called "hieroglyphs" out of a chaos of line. The dark hats that emerge become, like printed words, a representation of "men in the street." Among the hatted males, a woman, defined by her dark hair, heavily shadowed eyes, and full-lipped mouth, stands alone. The outlines suggesting the passing men swirl around her, movement impressed on the air. Kirchner has drawn the people out of their motion--the image is a time exposure of both the scene depicted and the process of depiction...
...deliberate manner, he can, and usually does, dominate almost any gathering, whether it is a small private group or a congressional hearing. His steely anger, rarely displayed in public, strikes with the force of a sledgehammer, even though he hardly raises his voice. His grandfatherly appearance-wavy white hair parted down the middle, rimless glasses, that ever-present pipe-gives him an aura of wisdom. His sharp political instincts usually keep him several steps ahead of his adversaries. Says a Burns friend, John Whitehead, senior partner at the Goldman, Sachs investment banking house: "He lives in a political world...
Dick Young, gifted, didactic and the senior baseball writer in Manhattan, forecast the imminent firing of Billy Martin, the Yankee manager. "Billy had the world by the fine hair, and he has loused it up," Young wrote with consistent, if unappealing imagery...
...because she has a comb. Typically, wordploy is incessant, and terror lurks just beneath the surface. At one point the wasp takes off his wig and stretches out one claw toward Alice "as if he wished to do the same for her." "The cutting off of hair," writes Gardner, "like decapitation and teeth extraction, is a familiar Freudian symbol of castration. Interesting interpretations of this will surely be forthcoming from psychoanalytically oriented critics...
...administrative assistant for most of the 1950s. As a union vice president in 1970, he seemed a likely choice to inherit "the Redhead's" post, but lost out when the union's executive board recommended Woodcock by one vote. More gregarious than Woodcock, a punchier speaker, a hair more liberal, Fraser signals a change in style rather than substance...