Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paint the body because it has great possibilities for interpretation," Wunderlich says. That much he shares with the German expressionists. But his dry wit and typically surrealist delight in visual and verbal puns provide ample comic relief. He titled a portrait of a woman with five breasts Very Décolleté. As for interpretations of his paintings, he leaves that to others. "I refuse to try to explain everything, because if you know too much about yourself, you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick...
...last several years there has been a great proliferation of interest in alteration of consciousness. The attention that first focused on mind-altering drugs has grown to encompass sensitivity groups and other nonchemical alterations of perspective. The assumptions of these approaches and styles usually included a rejection of verbal modes...
Rudolph Wurlitzer proves in Nog that the creation of a mind-altering experience need not entail abandonment of conventional verbal expression. He has written a book, a linear book with no non-linear tricks, a book that Gutenberg would recognize as a book, that takes as powerful control over the reader as any of the other approaches people have rediscovered or invented...
...Boston leader of the Black Panther Party followed Genet with a longer speech that reiterated some of the some issues. This speaker castigated the white audience directly for its "safe radicalism," the "comfortable verbal masturbation that never gets off the level of abstractions...
Awareness of Death. Sloan's locale is a presidential palace in a Caribbean republic in the early 1930s. His emphasis is on death, ritual and the family. The family is presented as a verbal killing ground where people prepare for real death. The ritual of death itself is a coup de theatre, a mock bullfight complete with toreador costumes in which the killers and the killed are all humans. The conceit works in that both Greek tragedy and the bullfight derive their heightened drama from an imminent awareness of death...