Word: mule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amer ica. The print suited his liking for swift assemblies of images, and his rest less improvisation tested the limits of defining a print. The latest result includes some of the most remark able graphic images made by a liv ing artist: Rausehenberg's Hoar frost suite, including Mule (see color page...
...Confederate veteran of the Civil War, Hunt was born on a farm in Ramsey, Ill. He left school early and for several years roamed- the country as a cowboy, mule skinner and lumberjack. In 1921 Hunt turned up in El Dorado, Ark., just after oil had been discovered. One story is that he won his first oil well in a game of five-card stud...
...utility, supple enough to take what the world offers each day and make it new. When he speaks of "the fall of the year," he is not reading from a calendar but describing what he has seen in the fields. Similes are there to surprise and delight: a mule is "pretty as a peeled onion," a group of children is "raggedy as a can of kraut...
...with an unusual mind, then in telling his own story he is also telling the story of all other black Southerners as well. His smallest action, if seen as typical of an entire race and class, immediately becomes universal in its importance and profundity. If Nate Shaw buys a mule, say, it may make an interesting story in itself; but if it's actually all struggling black tenant farmers acting, with Nate as a distillation of all their experiences, whatever he does takes on enormous significance...
...terms of image, Oakland never had a chance. Liza Minnelli, Cary Grant and Walter Matthau turned up for the series opener at Dodger Stadium; the Bay Area could counter only with Charlie O, the A's mascot mule. But perhaps the Dodgers misunderstood the A's. Although Oakland's internecine bloodletting is nothing new, and, in fact, usually accompanies their best play, the Dodgers seemed to think that the squab-bung would undermine the A's. "I hope they fight some more," said Dodger Manager Walter Alston...