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...Loud, Vulgar, and Drunk...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: A Heated Meeting of Two Aquatic Giants | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

...blue glass disk suggesting the ether from which broadcast signals were gathered -- shows how little truth there is in the idea that design is condemned to lag behind "high" art in expressive clarity. We certainly need more shows as thorough and intelligent as this one, to counteract the vulgar mania for "art stars" and remind us of the real continuities of visual culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Back to the Lost Future | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible -- and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does." Work and seriousness: this, not the vulgar image of the madman issuing orgasmic squirts of yellow and blue at the dictation of his lunacy, is the real Van Gogh of Saint-Remy and Auvers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sanity Defense for a Genius | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Body" King lays out his most precious, secret feelings; in other stories he hits the vulgar, grotesque surreality inside us right on the head, and still pays his bills. He is vivid, rambunctious, sloppy, true-to-life, occasionally peurile, but always striking. If he's slipped a few times, he still hasn't fallen. There is truth in what he writes, not a lofty truth, but gut-grabbing honesty...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Writing from the Gut | 11/25/1986 | See Source »

...mother and daughter are flat characters partly because they are not given voices. The Enchanter lacks the squabbles and banter which pepper the pages of Lolita. While the child in The Enchanter remains for the most part mute, Lolita utters vulgar taunts and slangy witticisms. She knows that she is a "bad, bad girl. Juvenile delickwent, but frank and fetching...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: `Fire of My Loins'--With a Douse of Water | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

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