Word: viscera
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...Brig does not fare so well in its adaptation. Set in a prison for Marines, the play details the horror of prison life and should assault the viscera as well as the mind. Coming and Going uses only half of the play, and speeds up speech and action to an incomprehensible level. In the Workshop version of The Brig, the barricades dividing victims and executioners are just being exposed when they should also have been vehemently condemned...
...Chou's affable manner masks viscera of tough and supple alloys; he is a master of policy and implementation with an infinite capacity for detail. Chou quickly cuts to the heart of matters, drops the impractical, dissimulates when necessary and never gambles-without four aces. In talks I have had with China's two great men, it usually is Chou who meticulously answers the main questions and Mao who enlarges the broad and dialectical view. He is a builder, not a poet...
...having the unbearable sensation that, after all, you have nothing, because you've been preparing all your life, nurturing your fugitive vision of security, one finger always in the dike, somewhere a decorous pinky floating over your inexorably cooling cup of tea, and you didn't feel your viscera, sagging with disuse and un-excitement, sighing into atrophy. You lost your sense of where love was and might have been, inside your insides. The beast in the jungle, at last. You don't even love yourself, so you have to prove that it was inevitable, that yours is the human...
...guidelines, but the pieces must be arranged by others or it arranges itself." Oldenburg's Soft Drum Set takes an object specifically noted for its tautness and its sharp staccato clatter and expresses it as a chaos of relaxation. The Drum Set looks more like man's viscera than his toy (another example of a body image) and its muteness almost rings in the ear like a parade that has passed...
Gorky became rather more a surrealist than anything else. His canvases seethed with strange, diseased, weirdly colored, biomorphic forms that hover in a mindless galaxy halfway between flower and viscera. Agony was completed in 1947 and reflects several personal catastrophes, past, present and to come. The burning down of his Connecticut studio, a cancer operation and a crippling automobile accident ultimately led Gorky to take his own life...