Word: mischiefism
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...kinds of mischief is in the making," he says. "The more our knowledge increases, the worse it gets...
Yesterday's aggro and shock, today's museum relic. "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," curated by Francis Naumann and Beth Venn and now running at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is an interesting show of what is, ultimately, a spiky but fairly thin subject. Dadaism--its name made of baby-talk syllables, its intent to disorient bourgeois expectations of culture by any means possible--was a short-lived but fecund movement born and raised in Europe in the century's teens. It was more like a tiny religion than an art event, with a proselytizing...
MEMORABILIA MISCHIEF...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "International counterfeiting funds terrorism. Counterfeit currency is the currency of choice for terrorists. It makes their activities less traceable. It lowers their cost of doing mischief...
...have to run the place the way Sam Rayburn ran it," says Michigan's John Dingell, one of the few House members who have been around long enough to have served under the legendary autocratic Speaker. "Rayburn thought that having too many Democrats was a source of danger and mischief." And while New York's Charles Rangel still has trouble even remembering the name of what he refers to as "the Family whatever-you-call-it program," he can also count votes. "I'm afraid that's what the job is all about," he says. "Nobody would elect...