Word: uncouthness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think his observation, which was likely motivated by personal bitterness, was constructive; it reflected more about him than it did about the city. That's probably a lot like what Duluthians were thinking when they designed a banner just for me last week: "Nick Wurf is uncouth...
...picture of two long haired Indians with guns leaning on a log cabin. The caption reads, "A choice between the reservation and mainstream America." The two bottom pictures are of Michael and me in our preppy sweaters. The implication appears to be that we were, uncivilized and uncouth, trapped on the reservation. However, now that we are at Harvard, we have adapted and become like everyone else, a part of the mainstream. If the pictures had only been replaced by text, the article may have been more informative and less misleading...
...morals of sacrifice, so clear then, are more confusing now." This statement reminds me how we have advanced in the technology of annihilation. Engaging in battles, once thought glorious, is now considered an obscenity. I am reminded of the words of an old hymn, "Time makes ancient good uncouth...
...course, they will. Snider's rage, turned inward, becomes the depression out of which he kills the uncouth self that betrayed him, as well as the girl who never knew she was supposed to be not just his lover, meal ticket and wife but also his better self, source of the ultimate good first impression. It is a cold Q.E.D. for a chilling movie that opens with shots of freeway traffic hurtling past the murder site, Snider's pad, and closes with shots of Dorothy's intimates going about their mundane business while her naked body lies...
...stick out like elbows (here a homage to Giorgione, there a quotation from Marcantonio Raimondi), but what infuriated the audience at the Salon des Refusés in 1863, and has caused so many gallons of ink to be spilled on it since, is its insolubility as narrative. An "uncouth riddle," one critic called it. What are those people doing? One modernist answer is that they are busy being in a painting. But, as Curator Cachin shows in her catalogue note's meticulous and witty unskeining of Déjeuner, there is far more to it than that...