Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regarding McDougall, Hollingsworth comments, "Chris adds a lot of color to the team. He's got a mischievious attitude that's great at easing the tension...for example, earlier this year he lead a mass jump in into the Charles in a semi-naked condition...
...this works? This, in essence, was the purpose underlying the uses made of primitive art by surrealism, expressionism, abstract expressionism and their various sequels. It may be sublimated into anxiety, as in the tautly mysterious early work of Giacometti; or transposed into flyaway humor, as in Klee; or semi-industrialized, as in the fulsome productions of late Dubuffet; or, by a host of minor artists, boorishly rehashed as a sign of "sincerity." But it never quite goes away - for who wants to face the tedium of a wholly secular culture...
Usually, though, he makes roughly hewn, abstract, semi-geometric sculptures out of clay...
...gets worse, far worse. Peg is big and jolly, and so blatantly maternal that any semi-conscious reader can see her realization that she is a lesbian coming years before she or her family does. Cathy, the only one of the four main characters who inspires not even the slightest bit of interest, turns out so typically that you can probably call it from right where you're sitting. She's a Catholic from Philadelphia, and her first serious boyfriend is a social outcast who sweeps her off her feet and then unaccountably dumps her--but then, she didn...
...strong semi-legal undercurrent of capitalism buttresses this feeble, government-run economy. Private transactions keep people supplied with products not furnished by government stores. In each town, I discovered a marketplace selling clothes, shoes, books, and other merchandise, as well as food and produce. Some western-style goods are for sale; at a huge street fair in Gdansk, the Evi Strand blue jean booth drew a large crowd...