Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans once tended to treat high art as a refuge from mass culture. Let Hollywood exude whatever schlock it wanted; let the Box leak its eight hours of imagery a day into the average viewer's skull -- there would always be the Manet or the Rothko in the museum to reorient the distracted eye. The demands (and rewards) of painting were one thing, those of mass media another...
...Jose Antonio de Mello, assistant director of the Sao Paulo police forensic team. There emerged some dentures and a few earth-stained bones, some still covered by a pair of rotting trousers. And as journalists scribbled and photographers clicked, De Mello, like some macabre Hamlet, held up a skull...
...exalted spirituality expected among the primitives. The Dowayos are placid people, devoted to ribald joking, sexual freedom, wife beating and an unusual beer that Barley says "enables one to pass directly from sobriety to hangover without an intervening stage of drunkenness." Every so often, the natives erupt in frenzied skull-cult ceremonies, but basically nothing much else ever happens in the culture: "Dowayos seldom if ever seemed to do anything, have any beliefs or engage in symbolic activity. They just existed...
...downtown Boston, black-robed protesters wearing skull masks act as pall- bearers in a mock funeral for Nicaragua's war casualties. A banner reads 7,000 NICARAGUANS MURDERED BY CIA CONTRAS. At a University of Florida rally in Gainesville, students on the other side of the issue call the contras "freedom fighters" and cheer as Marcos Zeledon, a leader of those rebels, decries Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Los Angeles a large crowd gathers to hear liberal Actor Ed Asner debate with Lewis Lehrman, a conservative activist. The subject: "Should the U.S. resume aid to the contras...
...alone: 15 normal on--camera hackings, four off--camera carvings of which we only see the results, three dream slicings which we view in all their glory, and three half dicings where we are never sure if the the weapon actually reaches the victims. Over 60 disembowellments and skull-crushings in the first five series. God, Roger, this is the sort of stuff that goes on out there...