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...impressionism. Beckmann was not interested in the pseudotranscendental aspects of expressionism--its yearnings for a higher world and bleatings about this lower one, its way of ducking into the "mystical" and the "primitive" as an escape from the politics of immediate experience. To him, as to the Dadaists in Berlin, this was for air heads. "My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art," he noted in one of his copious journals, "which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality...
...only live in dreams." War went beyond art and burned out his fantasies. What it left behind was a hard, copious ash of realism, and an unassuageable will to describe what it was to be not just a German but a European, an inhabitant of the Berlin-Naples-Pari s triangle. "Beckmann has been made ill," he sardonically remarked in 1924, "by his indestructible preference for the defective invention called Life...
Life precipitated in the city, the locus of modernism. His own cities were Leipzig, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris and Florence up to the coming of Hitler; Paris and Amsterdam during the war; and refuge, after it, in St. Louis and New York, where he died in 1950. But they tend to merge in his work into a single place. This city was the great human switchboard, the cruncher of experience, where events acquired a formidable urgency and swiftness, where people were forced together and the distances between them grew. It stood for oppression, strain, careful poses and unmediated confessions--above...
Retailers are having some success in nabbing shoplifters. The Arthur Young study showed that thanks to antishoplifting devices and diligent controls, stealing this year is down 10% from 1983. Last year 700,000 people were arrested for shoplifting. But Peter Berlin, who publishes a newsletter about shoplifting for the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse, says that only one thief in ten is prosecuted. Because of the high cost of trying cases, most stores usually just drop them...
Akalaitis said she met Beckett at a theatrical festival in Berlin where he noted that she had taken some liberties with one of his plays...