Word: hysteria
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...Memorable are two early paintings by Kaprow, both of which reveal his abstract expressionist training: "Hysteria," a visually assaulting assemblage of painted fragments and mirrors, and "Rearrangeable Panels," a series of nine wall-sized panels which have been presented in any number of concatenations. Though each panel is derivative of Robert Rauschenberg in painterly technique and choice of materials (plastic fruits, leaves, mirrors, colored lightbulbs), the piece as a whole reveals an attitude of Dadaist whimsy in the operation of chance, in the perpetual disruption of predetermined order. Also by Kaprow are a series of photographs and instruction sheets from...
Despite all the hysteria and controversy surrounding Elian Gonzalez, most Americans are inclined to believe that it all boils down to a simple right of custody, that his best interests lie with his father--not his great uncle, Lazaro, or his cousin and proclaimed surrogate mother Marisleysis. This argument might be pertinent, if the boy were staying in the United States. But what exactly does it mean for Elian to go home with his father to Cuba...
...light of today's heightened hysteria and xenophopia--such as the racial profiling in the Wen Ho Lee case or politicians' demagoging of China --the consequences of stereotyping can be disastrous. While hate crimes in the U.S. are decreasing as a whole, violence against Asian-Americans are on the rise. As a leader of intellectual discourse and reason, Harvard has the duty to represent the best of this nation's interests. A school newspaper that continues to feature a racist comic strip clearly accepts racial intolerance. Should this really be our message...
...washed electronic hallucinations: Fervent crowds at barricades, media helicopters overhead, an air of anger/ardor/faith all mingled - a sort of religio-political hysteria, posters held up like icons, T-shirts of the boy worn like scapulars: The child-cult of the Boy on the Dolphin and of his mother, the Drowned Madonna. Visions of Freedom for the boy, or of honorable Martyrdom earned in saving him from Going Back. The dream looked something like the early scenes of "La Dolce Vita...
...Back across on the waters on his Island, the Satan-Prospero of long ago whipped up his own surreal theater of hysteria. In my dream I saw video closeups of the Dictator's famous beard, and I thought in the dream: "Ah, you know, the CIA tried years ago to make that beard fall out with depilatories, in order to make the Dictator look ridiculous and discredit him. And, by God, it looks now as if the depilatories are finally working! Forty years later! Get a load of that air-conditioned beard...