Word: barts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Except story is not the end of this movie. It's a beginning, a pretext, for what is, finally, a brilliant exercise in popular but palpable surrealism. The film has the bleached look of a carelessly shot videotape, with, occasionally, what Russell calls "very intense hits of color"--a Bart Simpson doll is one of them--burning through its low-contrast surface. This is how combat appears to us in the new technological age--no terrible beauty, just absurdity's flat, deadly record keeping...
...from news accounts of the conflict. The LA Times had day-by-day book on the war--their front page every day it went on, and some of the visuals come from that. Like they had a cow standing in the middle of a burning field, and a the Bart Simpson sticker on the hum-vee, those images are from the LA times...
...might hope. In truth, the moment occurred in Baghdad-by-the-Bay, San Francisco, on the promenade built to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the UN Charter signing which occurred in the city. The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station, the market and the city hall itself were all dwarfed by the more familiar icons of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges and the hubbub around the construction of the new Giants ballpark...
...lost-and-found for stuff left in the cars: sunglasses, cell phones, coffee mugs. (One guy forgot his baby's car seat.) A website allows sharers at the lab to reserve cars for errand running (at 10[cents] a mile) and to arrange car pools back to the BART station...
...musicians --Marlon Brando, actor --Coco Chanel, designer --Charlie Chaplin, comic genius --Le Corbusier, architect --Bob Dylan, folk musician --T.S. Eliot, poet --Aretha Franklin, soul musician --Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer --Jim Henson, puppeteer and creator of TV's Muppets --James Joyce, novelist --Pablo Picasso, artist --Rodgers & Hammerstein, Broadway showmen --Bart Simpson, cartoon character --Frank Sinatra, singer --Steven Spielberg, moviemaker --Igor Stravinsky, classical musician --Oprah Winfrey, TV talk-show host...