Word: whiplashed
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...danced around, and even on top of, his work. In later years, he called his canvases "the arena," a flatland where he encountered himself in a battle between mind and hand, He improvised like a jazz musician, scattering paint off the tip of an overloaded brush in the whiplash rhythm of his choreography. Sometimes he added sand and broken glass for texture. "It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess," he said in 1947. "Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give-and-take...
...after eight years of one-man shows (and rising prices), Pollock abruptly banished color from his work. He also began weaving images again with his whiplash scatter stroke. There emerged an ascetic calligraphy that, in daring the absurdity of sheer scribble, produced a flowing script that entranced the eye with its imagism...
...inhuman. To O'Neill, marriage had its serpents, but they were invaders in Eden. To Albee, marriage seems to be a no-exit hell in which the only intimacy is a hopeless common damnation. But a powerful play never founders on its flaws. Albee's language is whiplash strong and leaves welts. His characters are rivetingly modern, and their weird autobiographical outbursts carry a numbing conviction...
...armored suit of imperturbability that has frustrated Dilworth as few things have before. In open debate, U.S. Representative William Scranton permits a thin smile to flicker across his face while his opponent heaps on abuse. Then he rises to reply-and that reply, despite its cool, deliberate cadence is whiplash in its bitterness against Dilworth. "We have got graft and corruption." he charges. "We have got it in Philadelphia, and we know what has not been done about it ... He cries in front of the courtroom and on television to try and stop any kind of investigation . . . This crown prince...
...instincts developed into drives only under the whiplash of anxiety. To Sullivan, devotee of the "power motive." which drives man to pursue security, anxiety arose from the infant's apprehension of disapproval. And Sullivan had one significant insight: experiences that create anxiety not only limit the victim's activities, but also actually set limits to his awareness and hence to his learning ability...