Word: spouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Griffith of musical shorts, not so much for his story-telling vigor as for his love of racial stereotypes. He bedecks Armstrong in a leopard-skin tunic, harem pants and body glitter; he urges his black actors to grimace grotesquely and gives them fearful patois to spout ("I run until I's black in de face," says a man fleeing a Latin American revolt in the 1931 Be Like Me). He was not alone in caricaturing African Americans. Crosby, whose crooner inflections owed much to black musicians, wears blackface in the 1932 Dream House--as Jolson did in The Jazz...
...more and more Harvard grads each year as increasing numbers of students seek employment with the innumerable firms (all coincidentally based either in Cambridge or New York City) that come to lure them from the professions each fall. These firms need smart (credentialed) people (fresh meat) to provide (spout) that special skill (ability to bullshit) of symbolic analysis (ability to bullshit well...
...prove that the community of the politically obsessed is regular guys and gals, who care more about a Jerry Rice catch or a Pippen-to-Jordan jam than the latest tracking poll or Aspen Institute Seminar. But voters are not fools; when they hear a talking head spout one of these lame efforts, they respond like an assembly of eighth-graders listening to an assistant principal quoting Beavis and Butt-head. They turn...
...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...