Word: putdowns
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...again; purist criticism gave them short shrift. Landscape was regarded as the abstractionist's copout. Diebenkorn's work was described as abstract expressionism (the New York style par excellence) diluted for West Coast palates. If not unserious, at least it was not major. "It was always a putdown for me in the '50s," recalls Diebenkorn, 55, a big, reticent man with a no-nonsense bearing. "There were, one was told, all the New York artists doing strictly abstract painting; but according to Art News I was nothing but a landscapist. I resented being cut out from...
...Duke of Windsor to Joe DiMaggio, from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Mobster Frank Costello. Generous and impulsive, he once dropped more than $60,000 on a World Series bet, and would carry down-and-out customers on the cuff for months on end. Master of the boorish putdown, he called his famous customers "creeps" and "crumb-bums." "If he doesn't insult you, he doesn't love you," Actor Pat O'Brien once said. "And if he doesn't love you, then you have missed a chunk of life...
Perhaps-but there is another point of view, and nobody ever phrased it better than Ogden Nash did in his memorable putdown of nonvoters...
...oversized diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other jumbo gems made of mug-proof cardboard. The paper jewels, actually collages made from color photographs of real gems, are meant to dangle from the neck on elasticized "platinum-colored" chains. On the back of each cutout is a wry put-on and putdown of the world's most illustrious jewels and jewel collectors...
...addition to his legendary campaign skills and mastery of the sulfurous political putdown, Connally could give Ford or Reagan a fighting chance to carry Texas, where the Carter-Mondale ticket now seems well ahead. Connally could also help the Republicans in some Southern states, notably Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina and Virginia...