Word: redder
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...tenth of the population of Indochina is killed annually by American weapons; Cambodia's Angkor Wat, one of the greatest works of religious architecture in the world, is gutted by American artillery shells; the brown earth of Laos blushes redder and redder from the blood of peasants killed by our saturation bombing. We perpetuate horror upon horror in a war we have already lost, a war we lost long ago, a war we could never have won, a war intolerable to the principles we avow as our own, and yet students remain if not unmoved, immobile...
Audubon is a superbly sensuous poem, full of dawns "redder than meat," and chimney smoke that "bellies the ridgepole." The language is plain-grits as a folk song without being folksy. A be-ginning-of-the-world awe broods over the work: silence, solitude, finally the violence that ruptures both. Above the wilderness soar Audubon's birds, transcendent angels of life and death...
...Next he sprays on the dancing dervish loops and lines that race across them with an industrial airbrush. Finally, he cuts out the picture he wants from the panorama that he has created. He considers titles irrelevant. Red/ Red was called that because he wanted to make a picture redder and more intense than any he had made before. He has done...
Esther was growing redder. "Cripes, what are you going to do about everything...
Today the Transkei is anything but independent. The South African government furnishes most of its civil servants and most of its budget. It is virtually without industry, its soil is eroded and impoverished, its roads little more than tracks for the oxcarts that travel them. Its women wear blankets redder than the dusty earth, its old men sit on the ground in front of their huts smoking long-stemmed pipes. And its young men leave as soon as they can to seek work in the white cities...