Word: pelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excitement. In Optical Hopes and Illusions, bicycle riders ride cross-canvas to turn into eyeglasses. Etcetera seems nothing more than a row of bright blue buildings, ends up spelling out its title. Making the Fur Fly, Ray's homage to Georges Braque. glues a bird-shaped piece of pelt on a solid background. Signature looks to be a single building, but at the proper distance its doors and windows spell the artist's name and its eaves the date. Jokes all, they are. and technically indebted to other painters. Ramapo Hills owes flagrant credit to Franz Marc...
...rinsed peruke. The sets are reminiscent of Agincourt: Washington's headquarters is a cluster of pretty round tents with scalloped tops and silk banners snapping in the breeze. For Lafayette's triumphal farewell to America, joyous peasants stand waving in the courtyards of thatched cottages, little girls pelt the hero with flowers, Washington says "And now we part, Mushoor luh Markee," and all that is missing is toasts in Pouilly-Fuisse...
...tale of parricide bewitches every hearer on that lonely and scandal-starved strand. Pegeen clucks over him like a pullet, the Widow Quin sets traps for him, and a bevy-for there is no other word to describe these refugees from some amateurish Pirates of Penzance-of young girls pelt him with phony giggles and surfeit him with breakfasts of duck eggs, fine fat boiled hens, cakes, and pats of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. Too many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs him on to further embroideries on how he killed...
Even a spoof of communism would be permitted on the Russian stage, said Katayev, but "the audience would pelt the author with apples. The public likes communism...
Brave men have stood to the tiger's rush seeking his costly pelt...