Ultimately, all of his works--though perhaps none more obviously than the painted bronze
Spitballs, 2010, which spattered the gallery wall--offer us tools for mischievous rebellion.
Yet in the end, such gestures are as effective as
spitballs against battleships.
questionable stats due to rule violations: pine tar and
spitballs.
For some reason, though, the same self-righteous sportswriters who throw
spitballs at baseball players rum their heads when it comes to the gridiron.
Like schoolyard bullies that throw
spitballs, workplace bullies generally launch their attack by making unjustified accusations about their target's character, competency, personality or emotional stability.
This quiet battle was fought with feet, not with slingshots, weapons or
spitballs. The emotional effect of the imagery of tired but "keep-going feet" and "can't stop us feet" is gripping.
Reg Whitaker's review contains a self-congratulatory notice that he himself ("a tenured white male professor") retired from academia early so as "to open up the faculty to a greater diversity." His article features a number of
spitballs lobbed at old professors (whether male or female) who (because of "Charter of Rights and Freedoms decisions") no longer have to retire, and who will stay on "indefinitely." According to Whitaker (and presumably Anthony Stewart), aged faculty members are a major impediment to "diversity" on Canadian campuses.
Technology that aids our ability to negotiate the roast curve following a preset path that can be reproduced again and again, without compromising even one thing that we love about pulling a roast by hand is nothing to throw
spitballs at.
Kakutani claims that Stewart, indeed, speaks "truth to power," even while he claims to only "throw
spitballs." He is a rare, non-ideological "sane voice" in the "noisy red-blue echo chamber." A colleague says he "really does care."
WHILE THE LOWER-TIER candidates have occasionally lobbed
spitballs at the frontrunners, the contest for the Republican presidential nomination has mostly been a gentlemanly affair.
He had rid paintings of
spitballs and fingerprints left by inconsiderate visitors before.
But he did press hard the Kerry-baiter John O'Neill, and asked the fire-eating Zell Miller, "Do you believe that John Kerry and Ted Kennedy really only believe in defending America with
spitballs?"--leading Miller to famously "wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person [i.e., Matthews] to a duel."
But unless their function is to propagandize, they are not purposefully fashioned to toss the viewer curveballs and
spitballs. They exist as entertainments, not as historical records.
