Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through as well. All his favorite themes and fancies are here, each sketched out in a stroke or two. Butterflies (now obligatory in Nabokov novels) make their appearance high on a Swiss hillside. There is tennis, Nabokov's favorite sport. There are little games and word puzzles offering one verbal move after another...
...transposing natural phenomena from everyday experience into mental constructions. He is concerned with thinking about the event rather than the objectness of the situation. Therefore, his works document events rather than recreate them. He picks a situation and applies an arbitrary structure to it--using photographs, maps, and verbal statements. By applying such structures to events--such as mapping the route of an empty package sent to six different U.S. towns--he gives the viewer an insight into how we order our thoughts about daily events. It is the viewer's notion of conceiving the event that Huebler finds artistic...
...that meeting, Rickey had also told Robinson that baseballs would be the least lethal things thrown at him if he decided to take the chance Rickey was offering, and then, to be sure Robinson understood what he meant. Rickey uncorked a demi-tasse of the bigot's verbal vinegar and threw it in Robinson's face...
...happening" became a proliferating desire for instant sensation. "Participation" was extorted from the audience, often with arrogant ill grace. Obscene words were flung at playgoers to the point of shock fatigue, and nudity was flaunted. As for trashing, the classics were vandalized and literacy, craft, formal structure and verbal text violently abused...
...Democrats have shot verbal harpoons at the huge subsidies. Senator William Proxmire has said that the program is "mindless" and financially "out of control." Though the nation's tax money doubtless could be put to better uses, the majority of legislators from both parties have lined up behind the maritime program. The maritime lobby is one of Washington's strongest, giving generous political contributions and speakers' fees to legislators; it has also contributed to President Nixon's campaign. Unions and management work hand in glove to promote new shipbuilding projects, since leaders of both know full...