Word: veined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more eccentric vein. Graves maintains that neither Benedict Arnold nor Judas were traitors. Sample argument: "A dishonest treasurer, as Judas is represented as being, would not have sold out at that petty price." The title piece of Food for Centaurs is a superlative action shot of Graves in the fine, frenzied throes of a theory. By some recondite detective work, he reaches the conclusion that the centaurs' food was mushrooms. It was a very special scarlet-capped European mushroom, known as the fly-amanite. According to Graves, this mushroom is fiery to the taste, imparts extraordinary muscular strength...
Down to the Bone. How did Stubbs learn his art? One contemporary described a scene that took place in a farmhouse in Lincolnshire. "The first subject that [Stubbs] prepared was a horse which was bled to death by the jugular vein. A Bar of Iron was then suspended from the ceiling . . . and the animal was suspended to the iron bar. [Stubbs] first began by dissecting the muscles of the abdomen proceeding thro five different layers ... Then he proceeded to dissect the head ... he made careful designs and wrote the explanation which usually employed him a whole day. He then took...
Leslie A. Fiedler, literary critic and professor of English at Montana State University, describes the friendship of Ishmael and Queequeg in Moby Dick as "homoerotic"-a case of "innocent homosexuality." Written in that vein, Love and Death in the American Novel is a tumid, quasi-psychoanalytic study in which Critic Fiedler tries to strip American literature down to a heavily annotated fig leaf. As Fiedler sees it, the fig leaf conceals guilt and impotence, the historical inability of the U.S. novelist to portray mature women or deal with adult hetero sexual relationships...
Lucas van Leyden was one who sat at Dürer's feet, but as his Mary with Child shows, he worked in a still more tenderly mysterious vein than that of his master. At the Virgin's left sits a powerful and pensive Mary Magdalene, holding a jar of ointment and looking like a second, less spiritual mother to the child, a sort of earth mother. At her feet kneels the picture's donor, who wanted himself painted as a pilgrim...
...Wrong Vein. In Tulsa, Okla., the Red Cross dismantled a billboard showing Mayor James L. Maxwell donating blood, with the caption: "Maxwell-Good to the Last Drop...