Word: schmerz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world. Out of parsimony I took whatever I found to do this, because we were now a poor country." He called this art of shreds and patches Merz, a meaningless word derived from Kommerz (commerce), but carrying with it connotations of both ausmerzen (to reject), Herz (heart), and Schmerz (pain). In the form of rubbish, Schwitters brought elements of reality physically into his art. In his studio in Germany, he also constructed a collage environment-his famed Merzbau. It was sort of a cubistic grotto, cluttered with such objects as the plaster-of-Paris-dipped socks of a fellow artist...
Lawrence Welk Show (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). An-a-one, an-a-two, an-a-three, an-a-four, an-a-five, an-a-six, an-a-seven, an-a-eight years of Welk-schmerz on TV are celebrated tonight by Lawrence and all the Gang...
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