Word: stubbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most powerful American artist of his generation, had written five years earlier: "I am for art that coils and grunts like a wrestler. I am for art that sheds hair. I am for art you can sit on. I am for art you can pick your nose with or stub your toes...
...artists were comic-strip heroes, Horace Clifford Westermann would be Popeye. The gimlet stare, the laconic speech, the cigar stub jutting like a bowsprit from the face, the seafaring background and fo'c'sle oaths, the muscular arm-all are there. He signs his work with an anchor; and Westermann's age, 55, is about right too. What the comparison lacks, of course, is the talent. Westermann's retrospective of 59 sculptures and 24 drawings, which runs until mid-July at the Whitney Museum in New York and then goes on a tour of museums...
...fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." Her style was difficult and sometimes, in its defiance of syntax and even grammar, infuriating. In 1955 Punch effectively parodied the Bowen manner: "She lit the sodden stub of last night's fag and took a sip of gin and meth to cut, as she'd have put it, the phlegm." Bowen knew that her style was odd and that it limited her popular appeal. But her manner of writing faithfully reflected the intense but indirect...
...from over. Being typically resourceful people, we noticed that the ticket stub offered a free drink at a nearby hotel. We coerced more than 40 people out of their ticket stubs and by 7 p.m. we arrived at the inn. We stayed there for more than three hours taking advantage of our free cocktails, although I had to drink bourbon-and-seven-hold-the-bourbon because I had to drive home...
...from any Bruin defender. The same thing could happen this year and this time I'll be there to see it, instead of 40 miles away from the action. If you're going to the game, remember to check out the offer on the back of your ticket. Your stub is worth a free cocktail at a nearby hotel...