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...collection of anecdotes, The Lost Art of Walking is buttressed by the sheer fun of said anecdotes - lists of walking-themed popular tunes and miniprofiles of the stroll-obsessed. It's a fruitful topic: walking is so essential to daily life that one can connect the act to almost every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright homo sapiens. And while Nicholson commits that all-too-common sin of conflating his subject with his life - the book is as much memoir...
...Depression of 1958. That's because the economy came roaring back later that year. This was in part a characteristic of the manufacturing-dominated economy of those days. GDP and employment would shrink precipitously one quarter as factories temporarily shut down to work off an inventory glut, then jump almost as much when they reopened. Things don't really work that way anymore - the jobs disappearing now aren't temporary layoffs, and the increased reliance on debt in the U.S. economy may bring self-reinforcing downward pressures that weren't an issue back in the relatively frugal 1950s. (When...
...reflective darkness stands out against the rusty color of the sky and the luxuriant spinach green of the jungle. As I sat idly watching and sipping my coffee, I was startled by the sight of two small gray porpoises jumping in sync out of the river....Almost immediately, from around the bend came two Pirahã canoes, their riders paddling for all they were worth, in pursuit of the porpoises, trying to touch them with their paddles. It was a game of tag, porpoise tag.”The early and descriptive passages of Daniel L. Everett?...
...instead of being able to use the dancers to help her fully visualize the piece, Schreier had to use her imagination. “I set out step-for-step from the beginning to the end of the music,” she says. “It was almost as though I were writing a paper, which was an extremely unorthodox way of choreographing.” In “Appalachian Spring”—the iconic work about the American frontier created by choreographer Martha Graham and composer Aaron Copland—dancers were charged...
...object, extracted from its continuum, and repurposed as art. All of Conner’s work seems to collect beneath a font of discarded, quoted, recontextualized materials—educational films, pornography reels, propaganda, B-movies, television, newsreels, quoted songs. As a filmmaker, Conner seems to revel in an almost Dadaist attitude toward a new democratic vision of art, where all materials—no matter how inane or lewd or ephemeral—can be incorporated into an artistic whole.The second, less elusive, but ultimately more personal concept is that of a love for the cinema. As much...