Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaning of all this is often unclear, even apparently to the boys in the band. "If the songs could be explained, they wouldn't be songs," shrugs Robin. "They mean something different to everybody." Although their work suggests a blend of late Beatle and early Blake, Mike will only say about influences: "I get something out of everything, even Doris Day. New spheres of reference, ways of widening the mind -everybody finds his own path to them...
...shaping his forms, Segal is preoccupied with what he calls "gesture." He does not mean the wave of a hand or the flick of a wrist, but rather the whole attitude of the body. Says he: "You have to know the gesture you want, and then there's always the question of whether the human being can hold that gesture for the 20 minutes it takes the plaster to dry." The result is that artificial postures disappear, and his models slump into poses that are brutally natural. "People have attitudes locked up in their bodies, and you have...
...residents, whose two main occupations are fishing and working at the U.S. military bases. The state government will collect a 12.5% royalty in the form of oil, which it will sell to processors for the profitable petrochemical trade that they already conduct with Japan. Eventually, oil will mean far more to the state than gold, of which about $750 million worth has been mined since 1880. Only $760,000 worth will be produced this year, as Alaska continues to run out of the metal that ruined those whom Poet Service called "the crippled and palsied and slain...
Hello, Cyril? This is your roommate Bonn. I have the most divine news. I mean, divine. You remember Modesty Blaisel And The Day the Fish Came Out? Well, now there's a raving new one called The Touchables, and it is absolutely not to be believed it's so-so, well, divine...
...Christian to this house, only it's not really a house but a big inflatable dome. Of course it's a phallic symbol, silly. Isn't everything? The Touchables keep Christian prisoner and make love to him. Women are such wretches, aren't they? I mean, they can only think of one thing. The end? Well, the wrestlers fight it out-divine-Christian goes to Hollywood, the girls get nothing, and their dome deflates...