Word: moms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kooning's expressionistic abstractions of the 19403 looked like angry snarls of tar, snow, syrup and a little blood dexterously applied with a bent spoon. But lately, De Kooning has become obsessed with a creature he calls "woman." It bears some resemblance to the Mom made infamous by Author Philip Wylie. De Kooning's women (opposite) are certainly the most violent and perhaps the most powerful paintings in the entire Biennale. If the purpose of painting were, as some have claimed, simply the release of emotion, De Kooning would have to be accounted great...
...Polka, some fast, weak boogie-woogie, and his TV theme song, I Don't Care (which he dedicated to his critics). Between numbers he casually dropped the names of God, President Eisenhower, Paderewski and some of his 185 TV sponsors (notably a toilet-paper manufacturer). He also introduced Mom, who was proudly sitting in a spotlighted box, wearing mink and orchids...
...spring he put his promising heavyweight record (16 wins, one loss, one draw) on the line against a light-punching light heavyweight named Jimmy Slade. The big wind dwindled to a spring breeze. Tommy lost a ten-round decision and got so flustered that he blamed it all on mom. "I'm glad I lost," he said. "My mother kept telling me when to go to bed. She treats me like a baby." The New York State Athletic Commission, which likes to think that all boxers are gentlemen, made him apologize...
TIME, March 1, erred-pardonably-in its pleasant report of a recent New York Times interview of the undersigned on the topic of "Mom" ... I never have "backpedaled" about Mom, but TIME was correct in saying I like women. It is the intensity of that passion which makes me deplore those who turn into Moms-an addlepated aggregate of self-made tyrants who turn upon truth or freedom as swiftly as upon evil, if either hurts their vanity. And this last is founded on the busty credo that any act of procreation, including the accidental, gives them title...
...think the possibility that Mom-oriented statecraft may wreck our land is more ludicrous than tragic . . . But the situation gets less funny every...