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...third reason to institute my proposed initiative is that by inviting homeless people into Loker Commons--and not just bringing Loker food to them--we can introduce a measure of reality into this otherwise unreal world of chrome, frappes and turnip chips. Harvard students do not need a student center, but as long as we have one, every student shoulders a moral responsibility to make sure it looks as little like a set for "Friends" as humanly possible...
Broadly, the catastrophe evoked two kinds of response from European artists. The first was to rebuild, to assert continuity with the past. The second was to embrace the ruins in an imagery of loss, primitivism and seeming inarticulateness, as with Jean Dubuffet's graffiti and turnip men, or the inchoate-looking lumps and scratches of French abstractionist Jean Fautrier. The older artists tended to take the first road, the younger the second...
...pureed turnip greens...
...vulgar betrayal of over 200 years of tolerance toward protest," said Terry. Reverend Keith Tucci, also of Rescue, notes that RICO might force currently open protesters into a more violent underground. Scheidler pooh-poohs triple damages on grounds of his own poverty -- "you can't get blood from a turnip" -- and then reels off a couple of nonviolent schemes that might sidestep RICO. Spilling cranberry juice on white snow to simulate fetal blood might have impact, he suggests; as would abandoning old cars in clinic driveways as a "vehicle...
...also -- despite his often repeated claim to reject tradition absolutely -- paying complete homage to an earlier French artist: Honore Daumier, whose tiny clay effigies of politico-literary notables known as Les Celebrites du Juste-Milieu, wizened, compressed and distorted, are the obvious and inescapable grandfathers of all Dubuffet's turnip...