Word: spoutings
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...directing, or even the script, as Holofcener and her strong cast give a flowing, excellent treatment of material that in other hands might turn to life-in-the-nineties mush for the brain. You won't find here a goofy, artificial circle of friends steeped in pop-culture, who spout nihilistic aphorisms or slacker meditations on life. Laura and Frank get angry, make up, and get angry again over petty things: it is awkward, it doesn't make sense, and, usually, it stays that way, thanks to Holofcener's careful...
...bigger pieces at the Whitney is The Art Show, 1963-77, in which the Kienholzes (he and Nancy Reddin were co-authors of all the work from 1972 on) constructed an art-gallery space and filled it with cast figures whose faces were air-conditioning grilles. From these would spout taped readings of art-magazine gobbledygook when you, the viewer, pressed a floor switch...
Iarrive at Central Square wearing black, unlit cigarette in hand. With romanticized notions of Kerouac and Ginsberg, I am ready to light up and spout out deep thoughts. But the Cantab Lounge reminds me more of a scummy bar in the middle of nowhere than of the urban youth underground I am expecting. It's the smell of cheap beer, and not the energy of angst, that hits me as I walk...
...stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct tape and cardboard. I stagger through a glitter gulch of Gummi fauna, Boston baked beans, gobstoppers, Good & Plenty, Tart'n Tiny. Then, bingo: bulk jelly beans, premium grade. I put my cube under the spout and fill...
...invited City University of New York (CUNY) Professor Leonard Jeffries to speak at Harvard, the campus erupted in protest. In large part, students were upset because they felt Jeffries, a well-known anti-Semite, homophobe and Black supremacist, should not be given the honor of a Harvard forum to spout his bigotry. That aside, Jeffries' speech prompted discord because of the utterly fictitious nature of his assertions...