Word: lipsticking
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...show is everything. A few rock groups share the evening with stand-up comedians or clowns and trapeze artists to liven up their act. Some musicians wear mime makeup and practice ersatz Marcel Marceau. Others appear in full drag-flowing scarves, high-heeled wedgies, false eyelashes, mascara, lipstick and cheek-clinging glitter. With the revolt long since gone out of the music, what is left is really a new kind of vaudeville or sometimes a freak show-occasionally first-rate, frequently diverting, but too often merely repulsive. Items...
Purse-size electric cattle prods. Lipstick cases that are really tear-gas guns. Canes that double as daggers. As muggers across the nation are discovering, these are the latest additions to a growing James Bond arsenal of protective devices used by city dwellers to fend off would-be assailants...
There must be some sculpture at Harvard before people can relate to it. A lone sculpture, a figure by Henry Moore, stands in front of Lehman Hall: the trees surrounding it are so overbearing it is hardly visible. Something like Claes Oldenberg's giant lipstick might have been more effective. The yard boasts little else sculpturally beyond John Harvard and Widener's lions: only recently did a Visual Studies course put up a kinetic soul sculpture in Sever quad. The bright red and immense size of the tripod-like pieces certainly don't go unmissed, and show what a vast...
...drawings, announced that "there is a way in which this kind of satire, or humor, can in deed kill. I think it would be one of the most bloodless means to effect a rad ical change." Oldenburg's response took the form of a vast red lipstick which telescoped up and down, stiff ening and softening, from Caterpillar tracks. It was polemical, a mixture of cosmetic, phallus and rocket carrier - the ultimate weapon. The fate of this work was as appropriate as its original message: removed from the Yale cam pus, it now lies disintegrating in a Connecticut factory...
...lipstick provided Oldenburg with other, related images, such as his proposed monument for Marilyn Mon roe, Lipstick with Stroke Attached, 1971. It looks flat, decorative and in nocuous - until one notices that the gleaming "stroke" of red-sprayed met al, lying flat on the floor, could also be the reaping blade of a scythe...