Word: babeling
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When pop was at its height in the early '60s, it seemed that nearly every young painter in America was churning out his or her cigarette packets, car grilles, Mickey Mice and talking Coke bottles. The result was a babel to surpass the ceaseless yammer of neons in Times Square. The problem of how to survive in this battering surplus of gratuitous images became acute for the serious artist, especially when the public became surfeited by having its quotidian environment rammed back down its throat, lubricated by an arty sauce...
...Intrusion. In the show are illuminated manuscripts from the 8th century to about 1510. A German chronicle about events from the creation of the world to the death of Charlemagne includes an illustration of a giant Nimrod directing the construction of the Tower of Babel. Even in the compass of a page, Nimrod stands huge and commanding beside the rising tower. In the magnificent Book of Hours painted for Catherine of Cleves about 1440, there is a wildly imaginative image of the Mouth of Hell-three gaping bestial jaws flanked by towers, with sinners and demons scrambling about...
...stories out of the country, the American can respond only with fear and irritation. He wants to be left alone to lick the froth off the attractions of a tourist's Russia and to work out the personal problems he has tried to leave behind in America. "Like Isaac Babel, 'I am master of the genre of silence,'" the Russian sighs, but he is confronted only with the paranoiac hedging of the tourist, and the knowledge that he will never be able to impart his talent and ideas to the public of a country he perversely defends...
...outdoor action at the Olympic Village is concentrated in the shopping center, where dozens of athletes crying "Changee!" in a Babel of accents meet to exchange Olympic pins with all the fervor of kids trading bubble-gum baseball cards. The indoor hot spot is the Bavaria Club, a shadowy discotheque in the village's recreation center. In the rear of the club, couples in their multicolored sweat suits lounge and embrace in a litter of long, pretzel-like pillows strewn around the floor. The play is also heavy on the center's pinball machines, pool tables, miniature golf course...
...story fiber-glass statue of Jesus Christ overlooking the Salvation Gardens! Thrill to gladiator fights in the Colosseum! Climb the Tower of Babel! Disappear into the belly of Jonah's Whale! Pet the animals on Noah's Ark! Ride a slave barge across the Sea of Galilee! Visit Heaven and Hell! All this and more for only $6 a head...