Word: limerick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dialogue. Even when he cannot make a character live, he can always make him talk. Wilson people talk about Russian novels and sex, the Third World and God. Give them notice, or no notice at all, and they will do a turn on Marxism or produce a passable limerick. For these vile bodies of the '70s are as restless in the spirit as in the flesh...
...Lola? Rumor had it (probably from Lola's own lips) that she was the daughter of Lord Byron ... or maybe of a matador. In fact, as this perfectly sober biography with a plot like a chambermaid's dream shows, Lola was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, the daughter of an 18-year-old lieutenant and a 13-year-old chorine. When she was seven, Eliza's father died of cholera in India. Shipped home to Scotland, the child appalled her stepfather's Presbyterian parents by running naked through the streets. Hustled off to school...
...Like the limerick, the pun may well be a folk-art form that defies condescension, scorn and contempt, and possess es the lust for survival of an amoeba. There will always be some, like that formidable adamant, Vladimir Nabokov, who believe that the pun is mightier than the word, that people who cannot play with words cannot properly work with them. "A man who could call a spade a spade," Oscar Wilde remarked, "should be compelled...
...ones you mentioned. I made one called How to Avoid It. It was a medical film, actually. [Laughter.] In another, I played a Nazi?a show about what they did with prisoners. I got the part because I had memorized an obscene German limerick somewhere in high school, and I recited it as an audition. [Laughter.] And I said it at some point in the movie, and to this day, when that movie plays in Stuttgart, the audience breaks up. [Laughter...
...late, he has developed bright geometric patterns as an effective foil for his figures. Neither as disturbing as the Surrealists nor as incisive as some Pop artists, he yet fills a niche in which form and humor are as indispensable to each other as wit and word in a limerick. "I see painting as poetry," he says. "Humor, after all is the reminder that we are mortal...