Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...throws up." And it is precisely this action which calls into question the relation of art to those sanctions so harshly imposed on its autonomy, on its independent life. That art assumes no obligations, that it refuses to explain itself. means that it exists apart from culture, a suspended object breathing...
...that's healthy is no white person today can be unaware of the existence of black people. I think we've been more, as a people, victims of being ignored than even being oppressed, that for the most part we were anonymous and invisible. Faceless. We were things, and object. People didn't even care enough to hate us. We just didn't count...
...glance, the burly, 62-year-old character actor seems an unlikely object of continental adulation or incontinent adoration. He is Bronx-born and irredeemably ugly; his voice has all the soothing qualities of a tugboat whistle. His brocade jackets and frilled shirts merely reinforce the impression of 19th century decadence. As a performer, Stander has only one style: the anthropoidal comic-heavy. Nor have two decades on Hollywood's unwritten blacklist enhanced his marketability. But Stander, who left the U.S. in 1964, has achieved extraordinary film success in Europe. He won raves as the mordant mobster in Roman Polanski...
...game is called "Blacks & Whites," and it is unmistakably derived from Monopoly. Its object: to capture enough complete neighborhoods to drive competitors into bankruptcy. Each player decides at the outset whether to compete as a white or as a black (though the directions specify that "whites are never the minority"). Blacks start with $10,000 in paper assets, whites with $1 million. As many as nine players move black and white pawns according to the throw of the dice, collecting cash ($50,000 for whites, $10,000 for blacks) every time they complete a circuit of the board. They...
...exceptional exterminators. It has been estimated that Texas guanos alone consume 6,600 tons of insects each year. Although a few bat varieties hunt by sight and smell, most rely on echo location, a natural sonar system. The bat emits high-frequency beeps that rebound when they strike any object, allowing the animal's receiver system to compute direction, velocity and distance instantly...