Word: germ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Having survived a series of crippling depressions, he fills the role of the penitent prophet. His wartime experiences, particularly the occasion in 1943 when he crashed in a Ju-87 and was saved by wandering Tartar tribesmen who wrapped his traumatized body in felt and fat (thereby planting the germ of Beuys' later obsessive interest in fat and felt as art materials, emblems of healing and magic), have for his followers almost joined Van Gogh's ear in the hagiography of modern art. After refusing for years to exhibit at an American museum in protest against the Viet...
Call it a bran-new genre of film making or the wheat germ of an idea by innovative Director Robert Altman. Filming in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., is Altman's Health, all about a leadership power struggle at a national health-food promotion convention between a vigorous virgin of 83 and a younger opponent. Lauren Bacall, of all sexies, is the maiden, and Glenda Jackson her antagonist; Carol Burnett gets involved as a White House aide dispatched to the convention mainly to get her out of Washington. On the set, there is no concern about life enervating art. Altman...
Since China's normalization of relations with the U.S., the Soviet propaganda apparatus has been working overtime to indict the Chinese. Peking's rulers have been accused of everything from planning germ warfare to running the world narcotics trade to assassinating President Kennedy. The polemical tone carries over from the popular press into the theoretical world of scholarship. One recent monograph printed by the Institute of the Far East of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (there is a similar institute devoted to American studies) is called Destinies of Culture in the People's Republic of China...
...citizens of San Francisco do not need their consciousness raised about the perils of venereal disease, but just in case, a Marin County artist named Grant Monday last week unveiled in Union Square a 4-ft. by 3-ft. ice sculpture that was supposed to portray a gonorrhea germ 700,000 times larger than life. By midweek, happily, the sculpture had been transformed into a puddle...
...subject seems beyond the interest or knowledge of Berton Roueché. An amateur gourmet, he writes lovingly of bananas, "the humblest fruit," but with their comprehensive range of minerals and protective germ-battling skin, a near perfect food. He delves into history to recount the tale of garlic (the early Greeks and Israelites learned about it from the Egyptians). He waxes more poetic about apples, rejecting the notion that this was the fruit forbidden to Adam and Eve. "The apple-the apple I know, the apple of country cider and the autumn roadside bushel-would be out of character...