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Then Shapiro began to move toward the human figure. This note is struck in the very first object in the Baltimore show, made in 1974, which from across the room (or in reproduction) looks like one of the abstract scatter pieces done by minimalist sculptors in the '70s -- Serra or Barry Le Va -- but is in fact an image of human dismemberment. Look closer, and the bits of wood turn ! out to be an artist's mannequin that Shapiro broke up in a fit of anger -- "I pulled it apart and just threw it around the room," he says...
...would dream of tampering with the majestic music of Britain's national anthem, familiar to Americans as the tune of My Country, 'Tis of Thee. But the words are another matter, in particular the assertive second verse, which calls on the deity to scatter the monarch's enemies, in phrases much admired by Queen Victoria: "Confound their politics/ Frustrate their knavish tricks." Last month the Church of England's Liturgical Commission suggested substituting a kindlier version, written by a London shoemaker in 1836, for use when the anthem is sung at Remembrance Day services for the dead...
...being lazy, but not to the extreme of some of my fellow first-year sloths. They scatter their trays with a dozen cups, few filled to the brim, most empty. No one has such a thirst. And if people do, they should see a doctor. That is, before our forests have vanished...
...smile, but The Heart of the Matter, which ends the record, is the struggle for a different sense of place, another state of grace: "I've been tryin' to get down to the heart of the matter/ Because the flesh will get weak and the ashes will scatter/ So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness/ Forgiveness/ Even if, even if you don't love me anymore." Brand new, that song already sounds like a classic...
...away she will have his body embalmed and put on display in Hawaii as a political statement and "an international spectacle." There it would remain until 1992, the next presidential-election year. Then, under a presumably more lenient regime, she would take his remains home, have them cremated and scatter his ashes over the Philippines, she says, "to fertilize his country...