Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight fedayeen on the suicidal mission were dropped by a fishing smack, which was later captured by Israeli patrol ships outside Israel's territorial waters. The raiders grounded their boat near a sewage outlet on the edge of Tel Aviv. Unnoticed, they stepped ashore, armed with rapid-fire Kalashnikovs and high-explosive charges...
...yawning rerun where R.D. Laing--that tired old intellectual straw man--is propped up only to be laid flat. Going on nothing more concrete than the fact that "The theories of R.D. Laing, the poet of schizophrenic despair, have such theatrical flash that they must hit John Cassavetes smack in the eye," she proclaims his movie "the work of a disciple." She then criticizes the film for straying from a strict Laingian analysis and plunges in the final stake by rejecting the movie because she rejects Laing's view of society. Kael has simply missed the point. She tries...
Many of the pieces in this exhibit were made at the artists' whim, outside of class, and the collection is lively and multiform. Occasionally someone seems to balk at imagination, although nobody is short on skill, and these pieces smack of exercises. A deftly penciled sketch in one corner, for example, depicts a male nude from the rear, familiarly postured with one hand on his hip and his body's weight shifted to one foot. A canvas in variegated blue with purplish undertones, of a bedroom swathed in yellow light, reflects the dappled brush-work and impressionistic style of Monet...
That's why I adored the idea in your new book about batacas-the plastic-foam bats that sexual partners can smack each other with. I rushed out and bought a pair, and while George was taking off his shoes, I crept up behind him (nude, of course) and gave him a loving bataca shot behind the right ear. As he got up off the floor, he shrieked, "Don't tell me that dingbat has written another book!" and ran right downstairs to our coffee table. He found it there, of course, and kept howling and slapping...
...lack of interesting subject matter, composition or concept. James Hajicek's cyanotype triptychs of boring, lifeless western scrubland are boring, lifeless photographs, and Mark Harper, who obviously worked very hard at making three-dimensional constructions of fabric, etched silver and silkscreened glass etchings, achieves results that smack too much of kitsch and too little of real conceptual innovation. Happily, only a few works in the show share these flaws...