Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skill sharp, his language fascinating, his face an all-too-expressive reflection of his inner disdain and contempt for his questioners. When the nomination of the hapless L. Patrick Gray as FBI director was doomed, Ehrlichman did not urge its withdrawal, but suggested coldly: "We ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind...
Mott the Hoople. It was Mott the Hoople turned me on to MC Escher's graphics in the first place. It was at a time when whim dictated my album purchases. I planned to buy the album, throw away the record, and hang the cover on my wall. Instead, I discovered that Escher had produced a collected works, and in paperback. I bought it, instead of Mott the Hoople. I filed them away, at the time with people like the Kings, Alan Price, Georgie Fame, the whole one-nighters-through-the-Midlands group. The music? Who knew? Mott more...
Connors was molded straight, all American. Stockton was never as readable. He was usually sullen-faced, as if nursing some hatred or hurt inside. He didn't swagger when he walked like the others, or hang about in packs looking for Action. At tournament dances he would stand quietly with his hands in his pockets and watch the band. He'd answer congratulations with gruff monosyllabics and then avert his eyes. But his growl wasn't hostile, neither was it shy. His slowness to make friends came out of something deeper. He acted like someone angry inside, all the time...
Funkenstein said that he will tell many of those he sees to hang up the prospects of an MD, while to others he might recommend the names of Harvard researchers as prospective employers. Of those he agreed to advise in 1972, 90 per cent ended up in medical schools as opposed to the 20 per cent national average for all applicants...
...this art scene. The artist is marketing wiseguyness (Warhol makes a six-hour movie of a man sleeping and distributes it as fast as his factories can manufacture it; Lichtenstein can't get off his punch line. "It seemed impossible to print something somebody wouldn't hang. Everybody was hanging everything"). The critic lacks an objective basis of taste; the artist refuses form, having already abandoned content; you get lost in the Whitney funhouse...