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...like an easy feeling of release you'd get if you told off the bastard who just fired you. Earthquake had a similiar man-on-the street life gamble element to it but it played on violence without aggression. People could scream with the victims but they couldn't wreak disaster with a conscious, directed attacker...
...Bicentennial celebration leads us to remember the events of April, 1775, it is important that we do not forget more recent Aprils. In April 1965 President Johnson stepped up the bombing of North Vietnam, and the following April the U.S. used B-52 bombers for the first time to wreak massive and arbitrary destruction on the North. And only five years ago in April, 1970 President Nixon initiated the U.S. incursion into Cambodia. This April, too, each week brings fresh evidence--trivial or crucial, comic or tragic--of the continuing strength the most shameful strands in American history...
...anything, too strong for its tonnage), it works visually. Sometimes the connectors are too busy, with all those nuts and bolts. But in works like Levi, 1975, the jacket of forged and cold-beaten metal encloses its granite haunch with an astonishing delicacy. Because they are structures and would wreak havoc if they slipped, one becomes aware of their properties as substance: the weight and crushing resistance of stone as against its brittleness in tension; the malleability and tensile strength of steel. Their articulateness goes beyond mere bulk. In the generally cooled-down, entropic context of most U.S. sculpture, this...
Vicarious degradation from the godfathers of mercenary humiliation is not "lighthearted havoc" [March 10]. The humble-pie manifesto reads clearly between the lines: 1) stamp out sanity, 2) uphold anarchy, 3) wreak pandemonium, and 4) escape reality...
...composed by Founder Rex Weiner, a pastry-faced 24-year-old, reads as if it had been collectively written by P.O. Wodehouse, James Bond and the Three Stooges. "Our high duty," it announces, "is to 1) stamp out pomposity; 2) uphold the virtues of surprise, randomness and chaos; 3) wreak lighthearted havoc whenever and wherever possible; and 4) get away with...