Word: heapings
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...ahead of him. But when he began making his first assembled images in 1918, he managed to shift the function and look of collage far from its cubist origins. He rummaged through the trash cans of his native Hannover the way an archaeologist might pick over a buried midden heap, on the sound theory that a culture reveals itself in what it throws away. Schwitters was the first to make poetry of this fact, calling his collages "Merz-pictures." The word came from a fragment of paper he had glued on a collage of 1919 that originally read "Kommerz...
What about the future of violent protest? "Bernardine Dohrn and the others on the top of the terrorist heap can only be moved to reconsider the role of violence if they are convinced it is tactically counterproductive. Violence is just a tool for them, and they use it when they think it is necessary. They might think the use of that tool is alienating people now, but I assure you that restraint is a very temporary thing. I'm sure it's going to get worse. The gap is still too big. There is no communication between...
...French did before them. Native servants, limousines, Swiss boarding schools for their children to compensate for the cultural deprivation of growing up amidst "backwardness, ignorance, and filth." Too bad that Laos-once calculated to be one of the world's two least developed countries-is a pretty poor heap...
...sloppily and wastefully place your wrapped sandwiches and capped cokes in bags. And what do you do with these brand new bags? Do you at least use them for garbage, thus preventing its spread? No. you don't. You just crumple them and pile them onto the already huge heap of garbage we have. Oh. shame shame on you-all. Frequent the Dunster Grill instead. In Dunster, we serve only on special, biodegradable plates...
...current bulwark of this great order is Col. Arana Osorio. He is on top of the military heap ( equals president) today because...