Word: inhabitations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he adapted the means of production of soup cans to the way he produced paintings, turning them out en masse-consumer art mimicking the process as well as the look of consumer culture. This was a startling act of confrontation. Here, Warhol was saying, is the world you inhabit but do not see. High art is your escape route from its crudities. But why escape? Why not accept it as your cultural ground, he demanded, since "pop art is liking things." Says Andy with utter sincerity: "I want to be a machine" -which to him means never to make...
...ruled on the basis of a hand-picked electorate; martial law was imposed after an outbreak of rioting in 1969. During those years, Pakistan was divided by more than geography. Physically and psychologically, the 58 million tall, light-skinned people of the west identified with the Islamic peoples who inhabit the arc of land stretching as far as Turkey. The smaller, darker East Pakistanis seemed to belong more to the world of South and Southeast Asia. More divisive yet was the fact that the westerners monopolized the government and the army and dominated the nation's commercial life...
...play. Blind, unable to stand, he is wheeled about and catered to by Clov, who irrationally obeys him though constantly threatening to leave. Hamm keeps his parents, Nagg and Nell, in barrels from which their heads occasionally appear to reminisce, tell a joke, listen to Hamm. The characters inhabit a world going dead. They have run out of bicycle wheels, sugar plums, and worst of all, pain killers. They pass the time running through stale old stories and pointless dialogues as their only protection against the death outside...
...interview while he was soaking in the tub. "I was so uncomfortable that I took a washcloth off the rack and threw it to him to cover up. After all, he was the President of the United States!" Because she was "surrounded by the effeminate men who so often inhabit the world of rich women," Jacqueline Kennedy worried for a while about what traits "artistically inclined" John Jr. might develop in the absence of a strong father. "I can't imagine anything worse," said Jackie, "than having your son turn out to be a hairdresser." Long before Chappaquiddick...
According to both American and British Embassy estimates, over a million people presently inhabit Pathet Lao zones. Those who have received the heaviest bombing are the 200,000 to 500,000 people inhabiting Sam Neua and Xieng Khoung provinces in northern Laos, and the quarter of a million people residing in the four southern provinces through which runs the Ho Chi Minh trail...