Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negative and positive cube-a conceptual thing." To most people, of course, a hole in the ground remains a hole in the ground. Who would ever think of it as a negative cube? Only a conceptual artist like Claes Oldenburg, who delights in the play of the mind above all, in the thousand fantasies that supplement his visual riddles...
...comic woes: asthma, a meaningless job, a possessive fiancée, a Jewish mother. One sunny day a psychedelicate girl (Leigh Taylor-Young) bakes him a bunch of groovy brownies from an Alice B. Toklas Cook Book recipe that specifies a few pinches of hashish. Harold promptly blows his mind and his job, puts on a hippie face and runs off with the girl. But as his hair grows down to his shoulders his troubles run up to his ears. Mama kvetches on the phone, 40 hippies move into his pad, taking over bed and bird; even his asthma returns...
...there is nothing you can say, there's nothing it can mean, there just simply isn't anything at all in your experience that you can call to mind to compare with this and conclude anything from. Falling through the sky is totally unknown...
Because it is completely unknown, falling through the sky is ultimately terrifying. Your first reaction to the parachute's opening (after the one second lag it takes for your mind to catch up with your now slowed body) is "GOD IT OPENED IT OPENED I'M SLOWED DOWN I'M NOT GOING TO DIE I'M NOT GOING...
...claimed. No sooner had the report been released when Governor Volpe, during a visit to Boston, tried to defend himself by laying the blame for Massachusetts' welfare mess on "a nationwide conspiracy to disrupt the public welfare system and to force us to bend to whatever they have in mind...