Word: artlessness
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...blurs, and the missiles, figments of automated delirium tremens that cannot lose. Even Quix, the most artistic, to abuse an adjective, of video games conceals a destructive end. The player filling in the screen with colored boxes must ultimately succumb to the loneliness of electronic immolation. Video games create artless heroism. The heroes born with the plink of a quarter and the blink of a screen seek an inhuman, mechanical perfection that frustrates their humanity instead of fulfilling it. No enduring legend of the Round Table here; the top ten scores are erased each week. No Walter Mitty could emerge...
...Taxi to the John) answers most of the objections to filmed sex precisely by seeing sex as one facet, however crucial, of its protagonist's life. This lightly fictionalized autobiography is Writer-Director-Star Frank Ripploh's first feature film, and it is as ostensibly artless as a home movie. In the film, Frank is a well-liked teacher in a Berlin secondary school, a fond son, an amateur film maker and an energetic participant in the city's homosexual night life. His lover Bernd (Bernd Broaderup, who took the same role in Frank's real...
...America so young in years; yet we suddenly seem old from responsibility. Just 20 years ago, Poet Robert Frost came to town to recite at John Kennedy's Inauguration: "Such as we were we gave ourselves outright/ . . . To the land vaguely realizing westward,/ But still unstoried, artless, un-enhanced." Kennedy answered: "The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans." Ike huddled in his coat, white scarf up around his neck on that day. When the Inaugural was over, the defeated Richard Nixon slipped down the Senate steps of the Capitol front and disappeared into the dark...
...could not come by the same perspective even if you were able to stand at that street, at that instant, and witness the actual event. The picture, like much of the work in the exhibit, illustrates the most basic, elusive and inexhaustible fact about photography--that even the most artless photographs are not so much records of reality as they are refinements and extensions...
...face the prospect of achievements even dimmer than those of the decade just past. Americans in the '70s clearly demonstrated that they value the arts and are willing to patronize them; it is our duty to provide the best we are capable of producing. Depending on our response, the artless society George Orwell predicted in 1984 could come to pass, or, with a little luck, the next decade could be the start of the Us Generation. Editor...