Word: yawned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geometric expressionism shows in the "hard-edge" painting of Richard Anuskiewicz' blinding checkerboard or in Ellsworth Kelly's triad of yellow tongues. Pop art's proponent is James Rosenquist's Morning Sun, with a plastic awning rising to stifle a billboard model's yawn...
There is one authentic yawn stifler in Supper, an inspired import from the British music halls named Tessie O'Shea. The O'Shea is fat and sassy, swoops about like a bat on a binge, and pitches irresistibly into a medley of cockney nostalgia, as in Don't Take Our Charlie for the Army. Tessie O'Shea has no relation whatever to the plot of The Girl Who Came to Supper. Lucky lady...
...biggest rumble out of Yankee Stadium in months, and the wonder was that there was anyone there to see it. It came on one of those hot, muggy nights when players as well as fans were languoring in the yawning gulf of ten games separating the Yankees from the rest of the American League. The yawn grew wider as the Yankees carried a 3-1 lead into the eighth inning; even the natives were getting restless...
...rears its smirky head in the first reel, tiptoes out with a yawn long before the end. Tour guide on this how-long-can-you-leer voyage into voyeurism is Peter Ustinov, past master of the suggestive "uh" ("Hitching rides with strange young men can be dangerous for coeds; you never know how they -uh-drive"). Going to movies like Women of the World can be dangerous too; it calls for an awfully strong-uh -stomach...
...recipes range widely in subject matter. "Lay the Ghost" prescribes various diversionary tactics to erase that haunting memory. "Blink your eyelids twelve times; yawn enormously-like a hippopotamus; notice four objects in the room; count ten hairs on your head-pull out three." "Attend Your Funeral" is designed for pure fantasy-indulgence, requires two solitary hours during which the reader is told to dream himself a guest at his own wake, checking to see who sent flowers and who showed up in person, listening attentively to the eulogy. Those who feel themselves particularly unloved are encouraged to "Attend Your Funeral...