Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artist feel a responsibility to participate in ventures which would aid the black community...
...apparently already there, whether I like it or not. But what the artist should do is define the ethics of a society. For me, at this point, the Vietnam War carries with it many more moral than political issues. Super Fly is a philosophic moral film...
...writer. As a political person, that's a different story. First of all. I have a higher obligation as an artist, that in no way cuts against my political obligations, and that's to tell the truth. That's a simple way of saying something that turns out to be very complicated. As a political person, my point of view is expressed by Nobody Knows, the book I wrote about the McCarthy campaign, which is that there are very fundamental changes needed in this country, and it's very tricky matter how we go about getting them I'm against...
...self-acclaimed student of death whose inquiries include mutilating experiments on his dog Sally. A lyric-writing old gent named Turnlung is also an expert-a virtual memory bank of death and that other equable state, prenatal life. Both Talbot, the death scientist, and Turnlung, the death artist, develop a need and deep affection for one another. Both are in training for death, and it seems fair to construe that their love is the main event. For to love is to accept the certainty of eventual loss...
When he is resurrected in an epilogue, it is as if Miss Frame herself had wakened from the slightly mad dream of her own novel. The talk is of reality's slippery nature, and the implication is that the artist's reality is often a nec essary derangement. Frame fans may recall the doctor in Faces in the Water, who cancels his patient's lobotomy and confesses: "I want you to stay...