Word: outright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disturbing in American art. During the '60s, he was widely condescended to as a minor figure, a Yankee post-surrealist constructing his dark whimsies-the haunted houses and shark-besieged boats in glass cases -at a distance from the "mainstream." But now that irony, memory, autobiography, humor and outright obsession have asserted their claims in art once more, Westermann's importance cannot be shrugged...
...interview with Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, Gianni Agnelli, chairman of Fiat, the giant $13 billion industrial complex, complained that normal parliamentary life is being displaced by agreement at the top between the Christian Democrats and the Communists. In the future, he said, if Italy is to avoid outright authoritarian rule, it may be forced to settle for a vague extraparliamentary modus vivendi, arranged among what he calls the "real social forces," such as the trade unions, industry, the Ministry of the Interior and the police ranks. The risk of such a "deteriorated form of democracy," he said, is that...
Still, I am certain that if Aldo Moro had been shot outright, like the members of his bodyguard, our outrage would have been, even fainter. Since the assassinations of the Kennedys, we seem to have no more shock to register about 'the killing of a public man. Besides, there is a sense in which an assassination is less of an affront to morality than a kidnaping. The great man is knifed. Revenge is accomplished or unholy ambition thwarted. This is only a rerun of Julius Caesar, without the blank verse. Long live, for a time, Brutus. With kidnaping, however...
Among the most significant factors contributing to the boom in litigation throughout the 1970s is the general population's stubborn litigiousness over even the most mundane issues, coupled with either a tragic inability or an outright refusal to face and solve routine daily problems that should not even require the intervention of third parties, let alone the involvement of our judicial system...
Other tunes in the album include a denunciation of a former associate called Dirt and, best of all, Street Hassle, the album's centerpiece, an eleven-minute kaleidoscope of destruction compressed into three separate dramatic vignettes and linked by a single musical phrase. Tough stuff, often outright scary, as when a character in one of the vignettes advises a fellow junkie how to dispose of his ODed girlfriend...