Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour-long speech more than lived up to popular expectations. With its redolent phrases describing Egypt's finest military hour, the address distantly recalled the great Crispin's Day oration in Shakespeare's Henry V. More significant was its substance. There was the predictable touch of saber rattling as Sadat warned that Egypt now had a homemade missile, the Zafir (Victor), that was capable of striking "the deepest depths of Israel." Yet under the guise of what he called an "open letter" to President Nixon, Sadat also offered a very concrete set of peace proposals. They included...
Cannons to the right of him, cannons to the left of him, Flashy is back in the saddle again. Saber up, pants down, his wit a well-stropped razor, he careers through the fourth installment of his adventures as the British Empire's raciest, cheekiest hero...
...eyed workman spotted something strange in the limestone debris-an ivory-colored, banana-shaped object that looked like a miniature elephant tusk. Bank officials, hearing of the odd discovery, quickly called in an amateur archaeologist, Robert Ferguson, who immediately recognized the find. It was a fossilized fang from a saber-toothed tiger, an extinct, ferocious-looking creature that once stalked wide areas of the Americas...
Perversity. With two other painters, Edward Paschke and Jim Nutt, this imagery of possession enters a horrific level of sour humor. Nutt is the more playful. His drawing appears to derive equally from Dick Tracy strips (the thin, grotesque, saber-edged line) and back-of-the-comic ads for hemorrhoid cures. The result is a mildly purgative vulgarity, harsh and sexy and comic all at once-a visual equivalent to the kind of sub-Burroughs imagery one gets in some Rolling Stones lyrics. Says Nutt: "I don't know what you mean by 'vulgar.' My women...
Gordon Rutledge, Emile Godfrey and Ken Hetzler each picked up two wins in saber competition...