Word: mortised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What she does mesmerically carry off is the portrayal of an egocentric exactress of 70 who does not choose to act her age since she does not feel it. She (which is all the play calls her) is clever in speech, stupid about life. At long last, she wants to...
The images that haunt Bacon haunt his viewers even more. Great bisected sides of beef are constant and chilly recurring still lifes in his works. "I look at a lamb chop on a plate, and it means death to me," says he. The human figure is contorted into pretzel poses...
In what seemed like a final, fiery protest against the death sentence pronounced on it by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a 40-ft. Skybolt missile flashed away from its B-52 bomber and down the Atlantic Missile Range in a flight computed to be 991 miles long.* Jubilant Air Force...
Flush the Arteries. Even before the boy, already under anesthesia, was hustled to the operating theater, his arm was put in a tub of chipped ice. The doctors dared lose no time in this effort to cut down the tissues' need for oxygen and thus delay the onset of...
"The major opus of the disc is the Cadaver Quartet," which is firmly in tradition of the metaphysical rock. basic problem is that of a teener couple separated by the untimely death of one of its members. In the "Cadaver Quartet" the girl dies of carbon monoxide fumes while making...