Word: meta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN THE JUNK artists come out from under the table, traditionally insular critics are pressed into finding a new vocabulary. You would not discuss Mickey Spillane and Ernest Hemingway with the same terms. Hence the meta-language of criticism has to be stretched beyond the usual valuations and interpretations in order to examine the structure of the creator's perceived world. The perceived world of a Spillane or a Russ Meyer becomes as important a tool for understanding our melieu as the far more complex world of Hemingway...
...halted all ivy spraying on seven buildings north of the Yard. None of these have been sprayed since, but B and G will apply some 20 gallons of meta-systox-R, an organic phosphate insecticide, to the ivy in the Yard and elsewhere next month...