Word: lumpenization
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...film makers. Some of the artists, like Richard Diebenkora, Harry Callahan or Ellsworth Kelly, are very well known and represented by first-class work. Others, like Willem de Kooning, are equally famous but showing weak things. Still others, such as the New York Artist Julian Schnabel (with his lumpen-expressionist jumbles of sticky paint and broken crockery), are immensely fashionable with collectors for reasons the work does not make clear. But nobody, not even the most dedicated footslogger on the SoHo treadmill, could have known everything in these three shows firsthand. Taken together, they make one realize yet again...
America may be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but there is a limit to how far our freedom and fortitude will stretch. With the massive influx of the "lumpen" of Castro's despotic regime, our already ailing economy will have to absorb the shock of thousands of new members of the work force. It is time to close the doors and remedy our own economic and domestic ills...
...clash followed a May Day rally at which Fidel Castro urged 1 million cheering supporters to bid "good riddance" to the "lumpen" leaving Cuba. Though the attackers had come in buses belonging to the CUBAN INSTITUTE FOR FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE, there was little doubt about who was behind the assault. "It was clearly permitted, if not sponsored, by the Cuban government," charged Thomas Reston, U.S. State Department spokesman. Though Havana promised safe transport home to the squatters, most decided to remain encamped there...
Time out for a little digestion. We got over 40 entries for this quiz, people handing in answer sheets up until 1 a.m. Monday morning. Every class in the university was represented, from finance capital to the lowliest of the lumpen. A grand total of about 4000 answers, both straight-forward and way the hell off the track. But as I sit here now, NOBODY, but nobody could compare with the answers that were turned in by Esserman, so I might as well just give you her choicest brainstorms before the fellas in the white nehru jackets pack her away...
This is landscape as seen by those who cannot escape, who must work on it. Such people were not rococo milkmaids. They were the rural lumpen proletariat, the rooted, shapeless mass brutalized by the agrarian disasters of the '40s and '50s. Millet was the first artist to make peasants a subject instead of an accessory. His paintings are an encyclopedia of work: digging, hoeing, planting potatoes, spreading manure...