Word: swiftian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been designed reminds one of Dean Swift's A Modest Proposal, in which the satirist suggested the fattening and roasting of infants as a solution to the Irish famines. Indeed, allowing for the limits within which an artist can resemble a writer, there is something very Swiftian about the whole cast of Oldenburg's imagination - haunted by death, fascinated by the elaboration of fantasy worlds in which the uses of objects are transformed...
...Roth's manically scurrilous satire, Dixon stealthily retires to a bombproof White House locker room during a national crisis and suits up in his "Prissier College" football uniform to bolster his confidence. At times, the mimicry of Nixon's manner and cadences is brilliant. Alternating between the Swiftian and the sophomoric, Roth has Dixon assassinated by drowning in an oversized Baggie and ending up in Hell, running for the office of Devil against Satan himself...
...nation's will and soul, the flag has somehow become the symbolic rope. It takes no Swiftian eye to be astonished by what Americans are doing with ? and to ? the national banner...