Word: rubbishing
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...pianist, after 30 years' rattling the ivories in a Kansas whorehouse, might reserve for ten minutes of John Cage silence. No guts, no drawing, no life: nothing but wind and delusion. Benton made no bones about his idea that nearly everything in art since the Fauves had been rubbish at best, and at worst the fruit (so to speak) of a homosexual conspiracy to rob the U.S. of its primal manly culture. The American museum, he grumbled, was "a graveyard run by a pretty boy with a curving wrist and a swing in his gait." Modern art was unintelligible...
...first in a series of gestures that, throughout the '50s, persistently harassed and delighted art's public in New York. They were all conducted under Rauschenberg's slogan, derived from futurism and Dada, about "working in the gap between art and life." Out of street rubbish, dead birds and old newspapers and gaudy lathers of pigment, he put together the "combine paintings" that, so much later, remain his best-known works. How outrageous, how iniquitous that tire-girdled Angora goat looked in 1959! What perversity seemed to lurk behind Rauschenberg's gesture of erasing a drawing...
...apparently the fact that he slipped some distorted information about Humphrey's draft status to Franklin Roosevelt Jr. during Kennedy's key struggle with Hubert in the 1960 West Virginia primary. Roosevelt used it to make Humphrey appear a draft dodger. "We should have destroyed that rubbish," O'Brien now admits. He is still bitter about those "fairweather Democrats" who could not see in 1968 that Humphrey would at least have been a far better President than Nixon...
...even when trash is out of mind, it is never really out of sight. Paper cups, tin cans, plastic wrappers, aluminum flip-tops and glass bottles are the detritus of profligacy, defiling the national landscape. The American penchant for littering is costly as well as unsightly; picking up the rubbish costs an estimated $1 billion per year. But the mess can be cleaned up, as Washington and Oregon are showing in different ways. One state uses the carrot, the other the stick. Both have been successful...
Powerful and daring minds are now beginning to struggle upright, to fight their way out from under the heap of antiquated rubbish. But even they still bear all the cruel marks of the branding iron, they are still cramped by the stocks into which they were forced when they were half grown. And because of our intellectual disunity, they have no one to measure themselves against...