Word: lumpish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...persuaded him to save twelve canvases for the show. Whether his twelve survivors represented a triumph for Bacon was another question. The paintings did not look like the work of a perfectionist. Done in an elaborately sketchy technique, they were remarkable chiefly for horror. Among them were studies of lumpish, long-necked figures squatting on tabletops, a sinister) male nude disappearing through a curtain, and half a man firing half a machine...
...picked Pablo Picasso's monumental oil, The Pipes of Pan, as a contemporary example of the Greek glorification of the body. Picasso's heavy-limbed athletes had the same solidity as sculpture, and for all their blank faces and lumpish hands & feet they seemed to glow with life and health. It was a safe bet that artists a century from now would still be learning from the Greeks...
...some "war neuroses"). The most desperate treatment of all, for the patient who fails to respond to anything else, is a drastic brain operation, like lobotomy (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Lobotomy may relieve the more troublesome symptoms, but it may also leave the patient so irresponsible or lumpish that he "seems to have lost his soul...
...falling, cutout black figure of Icarus looks as if it might have been snipped out by a child, until the onlooker comes to sense the impotent hooked flapping of the unwinged arms. The lumpish, drooping legs bewail their mid-air uselessness; the head hangs horrified over the void. By its very color, the body mourns its own impending death, which the red beating heart denies...
Ocean of Neck. The London Handel moved to in 1712 was a bawdy place of brawling and bawling. Handel did well at court. Queen Anne, who had little use for musicians, pensioned him just to spite her Hanoverian cousins. Anne's successor, lumpish George I, attended almost all his operas with his favorite German mistress and her "two acres of cheeks ... an ocean of neck." The rest of London was more fickle. Addison, who had written an unsuccessful opera himself, denounced and ridiculed Handel's music. Handel's rival, the egocentric Giovanni Battista Bononcini, kept him fighting...