Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Especially to the celebrated. For Rupert is representative of a new and terrible type, the beamy-faced lunatic who transcends the traditional boundaries of fandom in two frightening ways. Thanks mainly to television and the pseudo intimacy with the famous that it allows, psychopaths like Rupert begin to think that their intense feelings for the people they so admiringly study must be reciprocated as soon as the star gets to know them. They are always amazed, and dangerously affronted, when all the psychic energy they have invested in their passion is rewarded not by a long-lost brother...
...narrators of these songs are scared racists, displaced lunkheads, pseudo celebrities or pitiful nonentities blinded by the artificial radiance of undeflected...
...most part, the authors who have analyzed Johnson's life in light of this puzzle have produced shallow, incomplete answers--a succession of talky, pseudo-psychoanalytic books that attribute his obscure and confusing sides to mother-love, or father-hatred, or a desire to enforce the ethic of the Alamo upon an Eastern Establishment he secretly envied...
...instead of opportunity; Cold War brinkmanship instead of magnanimous world leadership. Only the most circumspect and thoughtful of the early activists were able to preserve their justifiable discontent in its original form. Most either drifted away from the student movement after repeated failures or joined the rush toward destructive pseudo-revolutionary militarism inspired by Vietnam and the draft...
...York shows that out of this pharaonic enterprise, Rauschenberg has been producing some of the best work of his career. Some of it involves materials quite new in his oeuvre, most notably clay. The star piece in the show at Castelli is Dirt Shrine: South, 1982, a pseudo combine in which all the disparate elements (tire track, painted chain, stone, bamboo ladder) were made from fired ceramic in Japan. The characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern Japan, mostly derived from...