Word: yawping
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...screen "collages" of the early '60s, Salle learned about piling unrelated images onto a canvas, the difference being that Salle hasn't a trace of the lyrical sharpness and poetic force of vintage Rauschenberg. His tone is a supercilious droning, very far from Rauschenberg's enthused, life-enhancing Barbaric Yawp...
...ideas and momentous events, scraping by on stipends and feeling generally Olympian, he had neglected to file income tax returns between 1946 and 1955. The distinguished delinquent eventually paid up, but to settle the score he wrote The Cold War and the Income Tax, a 118-page pained yawp that argued there was not much difference between the IRS and the KGB. "The truth," wrote Wilson in 1963, "is that the people of the United States are at the present time dominated and driven by two kinds of officially propagated fear: fear of the Soviet Union and fear...
...replace it with a mesh support, so that the shapes seemed to hang in the air. The relatively sedate movement of form in Stella's earlier work became an agitated, dense array, and the vividness of color seemed to have gone over the edge of decorum: a demotic yawp of rose, cerise, blue, sulfur-yellow, greens and oranges, scribbled and slathered onto the baroque shapes of French curve and drafter's template, and heightened with jarring patches of colored glitter...
...into the City of Chicago! Go down Wall Street and ride the Staten Island Ferry, with its twin funnels emitting scarves of metal smoke! Visit the Texas rodeo, a whole roomful of giant Celotex steers, horses and cowboys, painted in colors that relentlessly approximate the noise of a barbaric yawp...
...ought to be in use. It wd. debunk 80% of the idiocy in teaching literature in high-schools and colleges and 81 and one-fourth percent of literary journalists. Literary teaching and criticism ought to get the best stuff to the reader with the least interposition of secondhand yawp...