Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bittersweet technique of breaking in a new car as analogous to making love to a virgin. Chicago Artist Luis Jimenez's pastel study for his sculpture The American Dream shows a car, as Gerald Silk describes it in the museum publication, "ravishing a voluptuous nude female; breasts rhyme visually with hubcaps and headlights, hair with fenders, belly and buttocks with hood and trunk." Edward Kienholz's sculpture Back Seat Dodge '38 shows a truncated car, its front seat removed. In the back, a chicken-wire man and plaster woman are wrapped in beer bottles and each other...
FURTHERMORE WHAT, the debut from Oh-Ok, the latest band out of Athens. Ga., comes on like a decadent kiddies album, blending childlike innocence with childish perversity to set a tone that is, simultaneously harming and unsettling. The nursery-rhyme lyrics and the bright melodies on this six-song EP barely mask the obsessive, morbidity lurking beneath. In fact, the darker meanings are so tightly woven into the airy structure of the music that it becomes impossible to separate the perversity from the innocence...
Like the old nursery rhyme. "Ring Around the Rosies"--with its hidden suggestions of the bubonic plague--these songs translate the horrors of the adult world into children's language. The death, madness, and devil rituals on this EP may be common but Oh-Ok's handling of them in childish terms is quite original, something along the lines of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", which turned an acid trip into an Alice-in-Wonderland fairy tale...
...rhyme most gravely when the royalty ails...
Hart is throwing out tantalizing hints of a Stop-Mondale alliance with Jesse Jackson "between June 6 and the convention." He is even starting to speak in Jacksonian cadence and rhyme. Said Hart in Albuquerque last week: "Ronald Reagan wants women only behind ironing boards; I think they should be members of the board . . . they should have more say and they should have more...