Word: leer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March entitled "Smith Tops Alicea in Harvard Club Tilt." In this particular instance, the prepetuation of the inimitable macho barbarism of these United States by the ruling orders lacks even the usual G-string Harvard is so accomplished at weaving. But I wonder--what next? Under the benevolent leer of Derek Bok's official portrait what edifying spectacles shall we be treated to anon? Live fornication shows, nude female wrestling, bear baiting, cock fights, gladiatorial contests--my Lord, the mind fairly boggles...
...desk than in the bedroom. Couples approaching a frowning innkeeper would go into contortions as they twisted school rings around to look like wedding bands and shuffled their suitcases to hide the fact that the initials did not match. But today door men do not wink, porters do not leer, and managers in even the starchiest establishments could not care less if a couple fails to sign in as Mr. and Mrs. - as long as they pay the double-room rate...
Teeth in the T-Zone. The Women paintings are bathed in influences - 1930s Picassos and 1950s cigarette ads (that smile was originally a Camel "T-zone" clipped from a back cover of TIME), Cycladic sculpture and Mesopotamian idols, the "archaic smile" distorted into a toothy leer. They are also drenched in evocative rhetoric about monstrous, insatiable female deities. The Women have been compared, severally and together, to the destroying Kali, to Robert Graves' White Goddess, to Alban Berg's Lulu, to Lilith and Marlene and Marilyn and Mona Lisa. Now obviously these drawings do have their demonic aspect...
...that.) So folk art includes the minutely stitched embroideries over which the dutiful daughters of urban merchants strained their young eyes, no less than such humble ornaments as the chalkware statuettes cast from plaster by itinerant peddlers-of which a brightly spotted goat with striped horns and a Picassian leer (see color page) is one amusing example...
...talking with a guy from B&G last year when a pretty girl walked by. "The things I missed when I was young," he said, with what can only be described as a soulful leer. "When I was your age you had to wine and dine a girl for a year before you could get into her. But today! You just take her down to the Square for a hot dog and then back...