Word: kudzu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draw comparisons. "Medicean" is the cliché for large acts of art patronage. This myth dies hard: started by the ruthless city-boss Lorenzo Il magnifico himself, prolonged by his sons, nourished by poets, flacks and hero-seeking historians from Poliziano to Jakob Burckhardt, it seems ineradicable, like kudzu. In fact, Lorenzo de Medici was not a remarkable art patron; he preferred jewelry, knickknacks, antiques and rare manuscripts to either painting or contemporary sculpture. The idea of disinterested art patronage in the service of some imagined "public good" did not occur to him−any more than it would have...
Soft-Core Reality. A series of shorts on wacky subjects: a rampaging native plant of Georgia called Kudzu, the miniature circus Alexander Calder made out of odds and ends and could bring to life for his friends, and a celebration of pigs splashing around in their slop. Six shorts...
...glad noise of their own. Barry Bailey plays lead guitar; the Rhythm in the title is floor-shakingly taken care of by J.R. Cobb, Paul Goddard and Robert Nix on rhythm guitar, bass and drums, respectively. Their vocals have Dean Daughty leading. His voice has the languor of kudzu growing down from the trees in the warmer climes--he neocroons a song like "All Night Rain", monument to puppy-love. Other times sings with all the fire and drive of Lynnyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama...
...KUDZU. Imported from the Orient for use as an ornamental vine, kudzu has a wisteria-like purple bloom and a smell similar to that of grape soda. It also grows at a phenomenal rate; in rural areas, naughty children are warned that they will be thrown into the kudzu patch and quickly swallowed up. The threat is not entirely unrealistic. Kudzu grows so fast that it can cover an abandoned car in a few weeks, completely overgrow an empty house in the course of a summer, and keep highway crews busy trying to clear roads. It can even cause communications...