Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maryville was pretty much as he describes it in his speeches: a town where the schools and churches were busy and crowded well into the evenings; where nosy neighbors kept kids out of trouble. Though Alexander constantly invokes "the challenges of the next century"--a riff mainly designed to paint Bob Dole as a fossil--the vision he offers is one of middle-class village life in the 1950s...
After print, why not TV? Newt Gingrich taped an appearance on Murphy Brown and then posed for photos just like a real star. "I'm not going to paint or sing in the near future," Gingrich says, but he'd like to do more guest spots. Maybe a cameo on The X-Files...
...facts of his society, especially in the city; then his art would draw life and staying power from its common subject matter. "His vest is slightly spotted; he is real," said Sloan approvingly of a visiting Irish painter, J.B. Yeats, father of the poet. Luks boasted that he could paint with a shoestring dipped in lard and tar. The artist, smearing oily gunk on a cloth with bristles, is immersed in mess--a manual worker of images. This makes him one with the city and its people. For poetic spirit, he should emulate Walt Whitman, learning to embrace the body...
...unregulated and concerns about media amorality are scant--prime-time TV is a mixed menu of soft-core porn, bloodletting drama and violent animation. Log some viewing time in Brazil, and you will find erotic soaps and specials featuring naked women dancing the samba in heels and sparkling body paint. This kind of spectacle could just as easily turn up on European TV, where nudity, sex and tastelessness are also unavoidable. Consider The Word, a lewd late-night variety show that aired on Britain's Channel 4 for five years and once depicted a viewer eating other peoples' scabs...
...recent Interethnic Public Service Day is an example of what should be. About 40 students gathered on a Sunday afternoon to paint a senior center and help distribute food to the hungry. But the public service was just a means towards a deeper end. Students confronted each other personally, not institutionally. And at the end of the day, a lot of needy people were better off. The key: interethnic events should be less gastronomic and more philanthropic...