Word: pastepot
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...return to the top of a piece, he points at a picture of a home. Key signatures can be selected and music automatically transposed with the press of a button. A pair of on-screen scissors will cut out up to nine measures of music, and a little pastepot symbol will paste them down again...
...author made a mint out of pasting together every available bit of anti-Kennedy rumor, gossip, innuendo and fact to produce his JFK: The Man and the Myth, which sold 220,000 copies in hardback. To turn out his new 438-page volume, he once again wielded scissors and pastepot with savage effect. As before, he has done almost no fresh reporting-one of his major sources, in fact, is his previous, unoriginal book...
...likely to find William Smellie, who will expansively declare that he was the editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1771. And he is apt to say of his achievement: "I wrote most of it, my lad, and snipped out from books enough material for the printer. With pastepot and scissors I composed it." But as of now, Editor Smellie is finished at the Britannica. Because of the encyclopedia's success, both in Britain and the Colonies, the owners wanted all three volumes expanded according to a plan with which he disagreed. He refused; the publishers insisted; he bowed...
White's reconstruction of these events often bears the pastepot smell of news paper clippings. From Chicago, where he was an eyewitness to the uproar in the streets during the Democratic Convention, his reaction is detached and too concerned with the pattern of the old politics. He offers little more than a neat categorization of the participants in such efforts. There are "the curious . . . who want to be able to yell, 'I seen it, I seen it, I seen it myself.' " Next, "the crazies," identified by "their diseases (mainly venereal), their health (decayed from malnutrition and drugs...
Many admirers of Kolář's poetry are still furious with him for having abandoned the pen for the pastepot. But Czechoslovak Art Historian Jiři Padrta suggests that Kolaf's word-cluttered collages have contributed more to a "latent freedom of writing" than his poems ever did. Nothing proved the point so well as the Russian invasion of Aug. 21. All the walls of Prague and all Czechoslovak towns blossomed with writing-defiant slogans, protests and simple anti-Russian graffiti. Then, says Padrta, "the main squares were like one giant Kolář collage...