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Word: gratuitous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, created an "event" by shooting a pistol at a jet aircraft passing over Venice Beach, not even that lonely gesture of narcissistic aggression could be called original. Had not André Breton, the pope of surrealism, announced 50 years ago that the ultimate surrealist acte gratuit would be to fire a revolver at random into a crowd on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Scions and Portents of Dada | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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