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...that same year, Chagall was made commissioner of fine arts in Vitebsk by the newly formed Soviet government, and as a commissar he rapidly demonstrated that he was a divine idiot. He called for "revolutionary painters" and peppered the local party press with commissarty exhortations. His vision of the revolution was to make "ordinary houses into museums and the average citizen into a creator." Imagining that all the house painters of his native town were repressed artists, he spurred them on to decorating its drab buildings with folk imagery. When his superiors arrived from Moscow to find the walls covered...
...nearly six hours the acrimonious exchange continued, witnessed by Communist and non-Communist spectators peering through the open windows, and punctuated by the heavy footsteps of Communist guards being changed outside. Pak called Yarborough "a fool, an idiot"; Yarborough ridiculed his counterpart as a "political commissar" masquerading as a military man, bitingly explained the operation of a carbine with the help of a diagram: "This is where the bullet comes...
...Schwartz means seriously the sketch that followed. It concerned an abortive reading of Hamlet, directed by Isabel's alcholic lover, Alex, who is the brother of Isabel's former lover--who died of an overdose of heroin. Alex reads Claudius, Isabel Gertrude. Hamlet is appropriately performed by Absolom, an idiot-child orphan the other two have inexplicably accumulated some five minutes before the scene opens...
...evidence, she was a mortally serious Christian and a ferociously committed artist, a childless woman who lay in her bed and labored every day for six hours a day, all year for more than 40 years, to bring forth a race of poems. The worst of them are idiot brainchildren afflicted with echolalia; the best of them are fierce and radiant creatures of the metaphysical imagination. In Dirge for the New Sunrise, dated the day the bomb fell on Hiroshima, Dame Edith writes in her ultimate Miltonic manner...
...broad side of barn doors represented the outer limit of marksmanship for most cowpokes, few of whom could afford to by guns or ammunition or target practice. Belle Starr and Calamity Jane looked more like Hoss Cartwright than Miss Kitty. Billy the Id has been described as an "adenoidal idiot." And until about 1890, when smokeless powder came into general use, acrobatic gun battles-with snipers falling off balconies into water trough-were unheard of, because each shot kicked up a cloud of acrid black smoke that soon blinded everybody...