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Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Rauschenberg, now 80, arrived in New York by way of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the training ground of the '50s avant-garde, where he had befriended the composer John Cage. Cage's ideas about chance and randomness fascinated Rauschenberg, who began scavenging the streets of New York for junk to incorporate into works like Satellite, in which a stuffed pheasant presides atop a canvas patchworked with fabric and photo images and covered with washes of paint...
...past, people like Nisaburo and Hiroko might have chosen to live out their lives alone. But as Japan's society ages, attitudes about love and remarriage late in life are changing. Increasingly, divorcees, widows and widowers and never-marrieds in their 50s, 60s and 70s are finding companionship, defining for themselves a more mature vision of happily ever after. In 2006, three times more men and nearly five times more women in their 60s and 70s married for at least the second time compared with 20 years before, according to government statistics...
...want to evoke feelings so much as visualize them. When young Speed first meets young Trixie, candy hearts and roses bloom around him, illuminating his innocent ardor. The color scheme of the Racer home evokes Pee-wee's Playhouse in its cartoon cheeriness, and the decor is pure '50s Populuxe. Even the choice of wallpaper - cheery flowers in the kitchen, a tangle of rectangles for Rex's room - will have you smiling; it reinforces the sunny, mid-century mood of the last decade when family wasn't a dirty word, or a politically divisive...
...past, people like Nisaburo and Hiroko might have chosen to live out their lives alone. But as Japan's society ages, attitudes about love and remarriage late in life are changing. Increasingly, divorcees, widows and widowers and never-marrieds in their 50s, 60s and 70s are finding companionship, defining for themselves a more mature vision of happily-ever-after. In 2006, three times more men and nearly five times more women in their 60s and 70s married for at least the second time compared with 20 years before, according to government statistics...
That's certainly true of Speed Racer, in which the texture is the text, and it's deliriously dense. Renouncing literal sense (Is the film set in the '50s or today? In America or Britain? Who knows? Who cares?), the Wachowskis have created a fantasyland that is part retro, part nextro. It's a rich, cartoonish dream: Op Art in nonstop, Mach 2 motion...